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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #30 Posted: 08 October 2010 at 02:05 PM »
I am now working aboard the vessel Atlantic Guardian which is at the moment working with the construction of wind farms off our coastline.
While there are some who will say that these "ugly" lumps of waste there are a lot of people who will earn from them.
Dredging is and will go on in our area, I did not leave dredging through pressure but through choice I was asked to join the Guardian and so I did.
I hope that I will settle down and end up enjoying my time from here on
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #31 Posted: 08 October 2010 at 03:26 PM »
Quote from: nikkai on 08 October 2010 at 02:05 PM
I am now working aboard the vessel Atlantic Guardian which is at the moment working with the construction of wind farms off our coastline.


I posted a picture of that vessel on 25th September - Post Number 1335 on "Ships and Boats" Were you by any chance on board then Nikkai?

http://www.lowestoftonline.com/community/index.php/topic,8364.1330.html
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #32 Posted: 08 October 2010 at 05:53 PM »
that sounds ok richard...i mean to ask do you wear a uniform
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #33 Posted: 08 October 2010 at 10:24 PM »
Hi BB yes I brought it into Lowestoft
I was going to post a reply with lots of information like engines equipment job in hand but then thought it was a bit toooooo geeky so I deleted it and left the thread alone Roll Eyes


Hi SD yes I do wear my uni complete with scrambled egg.
I don't wear it while in the watch but just if I am on bridge watch or if I join or leave a vessel

STANDARDS must be adhered to
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #34 Posted: 12 October 2010 at 02:05 AM »
Hi all,
Well it is again stupid O clock and I am up !
So why ? well went o the JPH this morning Monday and entered the day case unit full of beans in the knowledge that they would look after me while I underwent a minor op

Hey who said it was a minor op! I'll tell you that if I knew then what I know now I would still have a few bits and bobs and yes I could live with the inconvenience, I have done for around 2 to 3 years...
The back of my left hand feels like it has been run over by a Kenworth and that is OK hey bring on the pain .. see if I care..
Mmm maybe I have turned into this wimpish weed that is sat here screaming "GIVE ME DRUGS" sat here on the one part that is giving my jip as would be said in all the old films I could do with a truck load of farmers to take my mind off the bits that are no longer there yet have left their mark (forgive the terminology) icon_scratch
To be honest the nurses and surgical staff are fantastic I thank them for making my short stay as short as it could be.
TMI on the medical department would put you off breakfast dinner and tea so I will let your minds wonder about what it is (or was) that they kindly rid me of (not hemorrhoids) evil6
The chaps at work said I could be a right A####e though now maybe not Grin, I think I'm awake because of the time spent asleep and the discomfort of the hand, the other is a little sore but I can and will survive (much to some's disappointment)
I do hope that I can get back to the ship and see what sort of mess they are making of it, there are a few modifications to be done and some of them are my idea's so I would like to be there and voice my opinions regarding the work. Nothing like throwing one's weight about..
Enough for now I'll get to moan some more later or even say some thing on the up side of life like one of my grandchildren has decided she wants to attend University to study hair and beauty, I am over the moon and know she will put all she can into getting where she wants to be.
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #35 Posted: 12 October 2010 at 07:23 AM »
Ouch Nikkai you have my empathy hope you feel loads better soon. Salt baths are good healers and cleaners. Once had an op. in the other nether region and could hardly wait for my salt bath to get into to, it felt fine whilst lying in there. Mind you I was on morphine as well which helppppppped 
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #36 Posted: 01 December 2010 at 06:45 PM »
That time of year has arrived and so it is with great pleasure I take SWMBO off on the visits to the long lost or distant relatives which seem to have been deposited in various area of the UK and even some other countries.
The first to have us visit are son, the grandchildren and then my mother and brother complete with their own offspring. this journey is only to Kent (Gravesend) so at 03:00 on the last day of November off we jolly well set....
Funny how things go isn't it! first of the place where we stop for a meal was shut? yes there was a dusting of snow but nothing that I would say was a white-out or even that bad it would be classed as severely bad. So continuing on through the county of Essex and the main road was clear, the gritting lorries had been seen doing their job and a good one at that. SWMBO and myself made good time on this journey and even managed to cross at the bridge without any problem, err that's where it all started to go wrong. Kent and not a glimmer of grit on any road not even the M25.... I left at my normal junction and found myself on packed ice, I have a 4X4 so this did not give any real problems and as I have also trained to drive a 4X4 correctly there was no concern on mine or SWMBO minds.
The whistle stop visits over and completed the return journey began this would have a stop off point at Blue Water then another at Lakeside both venues have departments which the wife or I would like to enter as to obtain certain items. Gravesend is but 6 mile from Blue Water so an early start to the shopping as we left the son's home at 09:30. at 11:00 we were sat in a jam still not at Blue Water but at a roundabout 2 mile from it, the Que (or should I say parked vehicles) were in every lane ON the roundabout and not necessarily in the right direction they should have been, some were at 90* to the kerbs, not because of skidding but because they were trying to weave their way through or even get to a position half a foot further up the road. then when that was negotiated the next was the hills where the ice made going up very hard for front wheel drive cars and once a wheel spin is started the use of full throttle is just NOT what should be used but tell that to the driver and receive verbal abuse and information that what would I know when I drive a F####### Chelsea tractor.
Given up on the Blue Water venture as the local police shut the entrance due to a RTC we divert to the tunnel but first a visit to an ASDA for some light refreshment (in the cafe within the store) another daft move and suggestion from me. the way there has about five roundabouts all of which are over run with drivers sat in the wrong lanes just using tunnel vision to put THIER vehicle as close to the one in-front regardless of where that is going or even if it is going (at one roundabout there was a panel van which had slid into the back of a truck, rendering the van unmovable but hey the car behind was that close you could not walk between them and that was much the same for the next few vehicles, so much so there was no way they could turn and navigate around the vac and truck so it went on with drivers getting very heated and a lot of language being hurled about. Giving up on ASDA we continued to the next three roundabouts all with the same jams and no space for traffic to leave in other directions, before we managed to get to the Dartford tunnel booths a Merc hooted and flashed me several times? I got out and asked what the gestures were in aid of (OK so I at this time was not as polite as that when I enquired to the driver, who informed me he was in a rush and I should get out of HIS WAY?)
I managed to get onto the Lakeside Estate at around 17:20 in time to see the places I would have liked to enter, shut. Now we return to the traffic jams to get back to the M25 and from the Lakeside / A13 exit it took yet another 3.15 hours to get to the slip road for the anti clockwise carriageway of the M25, I say to the slip way as this is as far as I could get, no the M25 was not blocked but the slipway was by seven cars ALL in the filter lane FOR the M25 but NONE of them wanted to go to the M25, (I asked)
Two may have thought I was going to remove them from their cars and beat them to a pulp !!!
I am NOT an aggressive person or even an aggressive driver, I have a clean driving licence and that is how it has always been but to come up against so many inconsiderate users of vehicles, who then scream abuse because they are in a rush when there actions are part of the problem if not all of it.
I have yet to drive to Lincolnshire and Oxon (have too much to carry to use public transport)
The problems at Kent are avoidable with good old fashioned policing where a few police officers can be used for point duty to control traffic.
The general driving public have turned into ME ME ME mode and give out the impression that everyone else should move out of their way as their car/ vehicle is better or dearer than the one in-front, so how dare it be there.
I am calm now though I have the opinion that the driver of today is selfish to the core, I am glad I was not towing my drag as I doubt that I could have managed to get home.
There should be a return to the points duty police and if filter lanes had bollards so that if your in them then YOU HAVE TO go that way, yes there may be a few mistakes from poorly planed trips but the problems I and a lot of other drivers came up against yesterday would NOT have happened.
IMHO
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #37 Posted: 25 March 2011 at 11:11 PM »
Stop Press !!!!!

Here we (me at least) are, took myself of to the JPH for an appointment at 11.10 and so set of early so I would have time for a cup of coffee in the cafeteria in the hospital.
How wrong that thought would be! first of dear little pusskins had a mad half hour and refused to enter the house for his food! (swmbo was adamant he needed to be IN) giving up on the moggy we set out for the JPH only to get to the Ashburnham Way roundabout where the traffic just sat there, I detoured down Long road only to meet an accident at the traffic lights on Tom Crisp Way, so then went down Kirkley Run and then of towards Gt Yarmouth in slow traffic over the bridge and also up Katwijk Way then follow a car right up to the dual carriageway at 25 MPH, Finally getting parked and sorted at the JPH with no time to wait for and drink the much desired coffee, so went direct to clinic prepared for the long weight there.
Sat myself down and got out the trusty ipod to play patience but as soon as it had loaded the nurse called me in for the consultation.
All done and dusted in 40 minutes so off to Gorleston for a wander around the shops there.
I now await the confirmation for the operation date to be sent, yes I have to return and have some more beautifying surgery the last operations was not fully successful
Still every day in every way I'm getting older and older so you have to expect the odd bit to need a service or rebuild ......
Looking forward to Sunday and a play with my models at the boating lake (noticed that the canoes had been removed last time I was there.
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #38 Posted: 25 March 2011 at 11:21 PM »
Good luck with the operation.

I can relate to the traffic woes, & maybe even surpass them with traffic woes of my own.
I went to Norwich today via the A146 & it took over half an hour to get from Worlingham to Beccles!  Must have been some daytime roadworks or an accident between the two roundabouts because we were diverted off at Worlingham & back on at the Beccles Morrisons.  Fortunately the 146 was open again for the trip home. 

Anyone else affected & know what caused the delay?
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Re: Nikkai first & last should I post « Reply #39 Posted: 25 March 2011 at 11:34 PM »
Quote from: Joe on 25 March 2011 at 11:21 PM

Anyone else affected & know what caused the delay?


Apparently a digger fell off a lorry.... according to the news reports
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