Enric

ch52: oh, these coquettish situations in high society

ch5: oh those little lovers

No, it was not an am soap. It was a soap in my country, and not in english. The coming-out must have been in 1998 in the television, because the visitor I invited, was with us in 1999. The visitor (that young actor) of course was a compatriot of mine - living in the same city. Not conceivably possible otherwise to have gotten him for just a meeting of a club.... I tend to believe that soap has not even been translated to english.

well, remember it's ten years.... do I remember.. okay, I remember we made one or two big parties in a year. they were relatively popular: all sorts of gays of the city came there too, paying a gate fee to our coffers; it was seemingly always something better to have that party than for them to go routinely to a gay disco for the night. see, gay disco is open next to every night throughout the year, but these student parties were perhaps twice a year well, then, I think in that year too we worked for some issues in the society: at least the official partnership legislation was sorta under efforts. well, okay, I was also good in catching ppopular visitors. some from abroad, visiting our city, and I used the possibility and arranged him to have a spot in our one meeting. my greatest feat though was to succeed in catching a young popular television actor to visit one of our meetings. The guy (who actually was hetero) was having a role in a tv soap that he just had came out as gay (of course, his role character came out)

as I recall, I was vice president of very similar club in our uni through the calendar year 1999. our elections were in Nov-Dec, and the term was the calendar year

ch51: yay. Wade my favorite won.

actually, as it was written in the beginning, a greatest reason to keep Lennox would be that he's Georgie's cousin and set as his ward, protegee. In that kinship society, people with power simply did not leave their cousins and fosterlings out, if there was not a very heavy reason, such as being almost totally invalid. Of course, that kinship between Georgie and yuong Lennox may correlate with Lennox's daddy's position: such a protegee position came in Lennox' way because in their family circle, his father was in position to get the best of available relatives to take charge of the kid. This actually was a great accolade and sign of trust in Georgie's abilities: as young commander, he got the son of hghest in their family circle. That said, if Georgie had taken in a poverty-stricken relatives's son, the same applies: Georgie will not reject sich a boy, from his ship...

oh, dear jeremy, but, you are in a sense just like your mother I see apples do not fall far... so, the helicoptering is seemingly mostly an outcome of genetical heritage and behavior models at home. by the way, Jeremy, has any of your acquaintances ever compared you with a stereotypical mother hen....

Winkler was afaik never a midshipman. He was a ship's boy, and/or a young recruit. However definitely of lower classes, and destined to be a crew member, not officer. The class distinction was very difficult to overcome. Those young volunteers who were of high clases, got then (after some time as shipboy, which could even been nominal service) the appointments to midshipmen. Low-class boys remainen ship's boys and servants, and often were advanced to seaman status when aging. Only rare cases, a servant-class person could make to midshipman rank; and in only rare cases, a seaman could make it to officership, i.e become lieutenant. It's like there was a fast trach to officership for higher-class young men, they being promoted towards officer corps usually via midshipman service. It was not usually open to anyone else than to those who were of educated families.... It is unclear to me whether Winkler is in the payroll of the navy or in George's personal payroll. However, in practical terms, this is not important for now. because, as servant-class crew member, Winkler is anyway quite plausibly posted as George's permanent personal servant. This will not change in the foreseeable future, because george holds a position (actually yet a higher position) where he is entitled to have personal servant. On the other hand, if Winkler technically resigned from the navy and entered into George's personal payroll, the location of his service is for now the very same anyway. I tend to believe (of these two alternatives) that Winkler remains in the navy payroll. If so, his rank is one of a lowly crewmember. Winkler presumably is not, nor has ever been, in middie quarters inhabitant. Nor uniformed as middie. Crewmembers did not have that much of an uniform anyway in those days. Read how they made some clothes to themselves from the distributed fabric. There is no reason to believe that Winkler would have any sort of dress uniform. Officially. (now, if he happens to be a uniform aficionado, he could have devised quite a nice uniform for his...)

ch4: so, not straight away to Mediterranean... Do I surmise correctly that George actually returns yet once to England, before going to Mediterranean. By the way, I am very fond of mediterranean boys....

ch49: well done Wade. I had this idea about Wade already long long ago. That he will be good.

isn't it Peter who is the treasurer of this year? and not that Jerry.

ch48: finally, a happy chapter....

ch47: woah. huh. this sickbed is quite a many chapters long. Fortunately, Mark cannot kill him. Otherwise, this dragging on could have too depressing an effect already now.

ch5: I am guessing that Trevor's father went to have some gay fun of his own

ch3: this navy life is full of surprises what to make of this latest?

how sad that experience gathered by long years is not appreciated in modeling profession. Once upon a time, I listened to a Soviet joke, a brothel manager (timed in the Brezhnev epoch, such as 1970s) wondering why customers are not appreciative of their striptease. He wondered aloud to the effect: "the head performer womabn is a most merited individuakl, a loyal communist, and party member already since 1922.... The woman certainly would have gathered an outstanding record of experience, already fifty or so years adult and communist... and performing still in striptease. should I conclude that viewers of models are superficial people?

well, I see that you did not read well what it meant. That I had lots of good reading (= almost ten chapters of a totally other story) . Which has something to do with the rubric of this message thread. hopefully nothing makes stories you write as distraught. Not even with entitlement issues.

are we forgotten? the weekend has already progressed towards its end stages.... and it's more than a week when we received the thus-far-latest Granger episode. sniff. ------- that said, another of my favorite writers had yesterday released almost ten chapters of their newest story...

ch46: oh my little Matt

ch45: terrible

ch44: somehow, misfired. or something like.

ch8: the idea of Spence with Cray would imo be doomed - Cray has a long-term allergy against Spence's line of work. It would be impossible or very problematic. Suffering would ensue. Whereas I predicted this Spike-Cray thing.

ch43: wade, my.

if and when Georgie ultimately is made a Peer of the Realm, his titles are bound to be: the higher title, of Lammert; and the lower title, of Brentwood. such as, Viscount of Lammert, Baron of Brentwood. that will mean that he will continue his maternal grandfather's very name (and subsequent generations after him), being known as Lord Lammert. The heir-apparent in that will be known as Lord Brentwood. But of course there are not always an extant heir apparent. ----- by the way, the day could be closer than thought: namely, the governor Sir Richard Lammert is in a position (and age) where it's high time that the monarch would create him as a Peer, such as Viscount. Royal Governors and Admirals did tend to receive peerages. Because he has no legitimate male issue, and that fact is obvious at the moment of the creation, the usual practice is that the monarch makes a special remainder clause to the Letters of Patent: naming some others in some order as his heirs to the peerage, usually according to his wishes. It's bound to be that the primary beneficiary named in such a remainder would be Georgie, who thusly becomes heir to the grandfather's new peerage. Bertie would probably be secondary beneficiary (failing heirs of Georgie), and ultimately all the issue of the current Lady Bridgemont (please, not restricted to tail male) would enjoy tertiary remainder.