Loading again at Immingham, heading for Antwerp after that. Immingham is known as Ming Ming in the locality and by sailors too, there is a great pub here called the Lock Inn, a shrine to formica counter tops and is great for chips and gravy, if you dig that kind of thing. If you want to get your head kicked in it is also the place for that kind of thing. It was modern in the 60’s the pub I mean and not getting heads kicked in, don’t really know when that got popular.
My tag problems of the other day have turned into a monstrous job, bad enough I thought but I have since discovered that some of the tags crossed over, but landed on the wrong posts! Aaaargggh! So folks searching through the blog by category won’t be having fun trying to make sense of the tags, I fixed about 25%of the problem yesterday, hopefully it will be fully sorted by the end of the week. Then I can start blogging normalization and begin to comment on other blogs again.
The new address is working well thanks be to the gods of cyberspace and my own lucky guesses at which buttons to press in the transfer, which was more fluke and coincidence than any real software expertise. Anyway before I go smashing champagne bottles off the holographic hull of my new ship I have to report a tag failure of grand scale.
In the great migration all my posts merrily followed but as they crossed over the river Styx they all lost their identities so they are all uncategorized and I have to plough individually through them to re tag them……lovely. Do I have a backup of my old blog with me? No that would have been too smart! Some tag pain coming up!
Time to move house. Due to expansion, modernisation and other technical reasons I am moving to timstimes.net or www.timstimes.net whichever takes your fancy.
Please update your bookmarks and links.
I will be here for a few more days and will autolink when the new domain is up and running fully.
Cheers Tim
He did not disappear he is alive and well and playing in Germany in a time warp called the 80’s, there was a poster for Lionel Richie also……hello is it me your looking for…..
Yours truly holding the leg of the donkey in the famous story.
Kiel Canal, Brunsbuttel locks by night.
Zeppelin having had less success with floating airships turned their attention to more down to earth or earth moving things.
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I managed to get ashore in Bremen for a few hours a rarity in this day and age. It was curiously quiet in fact for a Tuesday afternoon it was totally dead, on enquiring it turns out to be the anniversary of German reunification when East and West joined up again. So everything was shut. Celebrations? Some of the crew who had been ashore the previous night were surprised at the pace of drinking that was going on for a Monday night, maybe that explains the ghost town a collective hangover that has been going on for 16 years.
In a previous post I mentioned a ship called Blucher that was sunk by the Norweigians in WW2. It was named after Von Blucher who was a general who joined with the Duke of Boots at Waterloo, he was a Prussian and Prussia was a driving force in the first German Unification, some kind of weird set of Teutonic coincidences going on here.
Anyhow, time for my leave, more news soon.Tim.
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