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hope to see you soon.lots of drinks waiting for you, safe journey, take care

Confirm will look out for a black Savusavu yacht club cap.  Suggest amend meeting time to 12:00 hrs. so as to be at Upton for a Pedigree at 13:00 hrs.  ETA Ye Hostelrie 15:00 hrs.
  Have a good flight.
    Peter

Hi Tony,
Any idea which Upton pub you might favour?
Ben

Peter Kirby
Sorry I couldn't get a red hat so it will have to be a black Savusavu yacht club cap. It's raining cats and dogs here and theres a swerly werly moving this way from Australia so were all holding tight.
Tony

Good on ya Meakin! my hero used to be "Battler Britain" in the Eagle, but now Im not so sure! A belated Happy new year, I have not caught up with your travels in toto, but I wanted to wish you all the best. I"ve left PPS, now at Shobdon, pulling "g" in a CAP10C & not so much g in the Jodel, lots of fun, home at night, better pay, Rachael slowly improving, so who knows, 2006 may pull us into the sunlight again! Bst rgrds, gil

Message for Pete Kirby, just in case you don't see Tony with his Savusavu yacht club cap on, you will recognise him by the large cloud of discontent that follows him around. I will be there by 8am, & will talk as long as I feel the need.

KHM
Have texeted you details of flight and arrival etc. Will bring you LEDS for anchor light and tric. See you.

Peter Kirby
Will see you long before 13.00 as I expect to be at the 3 counties at 10.00 when they open (13.00 approx. we go to Upton floods permiting for lunch).I will have a red Savusavu yacht club cap on and will be with my brother who talks all the time.

Tony

Hi Tony,
We will pick you up on Saturday 4^th Feb from Heathrow, what is your flight number & ETA? You will be staying on Two Easy over night before we go to the 3 Counties show. I have got your book, new gas lighters and a 12v pump. See you soon

Hi Tony, Confirm I will pick you up at the Three Counties Showground on 5^th February at 13:00 hrs.  Suggest we meet at the entrance to the top shed, refreshment area.  I will have my mobile with me, the no. is 07870 494415 in case we miss each other.  I also suggest you wear a pink carnation in your button hole.
Looking forward to the 5^th.  Take care.
  Peter

TO ALL

I will be at the boat jumble held at The Three Counties Showground on 5^th Feburary 10 am till 13.00 Korean Airlines Permiting.
KHM and Peter Kirby please confirm you will be there to get me to Goodrich, Ross-on-Wye.

Tony

Martin Downes,

In August 2004 I inspected a bridge in Potugal built by Eiffel (the Paris tower engineer) I would have closed it to rail traffic and impossed a 13.5 ton limit (fire engines etc.) but as I havent heard that its fallen down my judgement must be out, see under report section. Please give my regards to Mike and hope he is now completely recovered, he and Gareth were my main reason for leaving early and I am still improving in health and strength. Office work is not what the likes of us were designed for.

Tony

Hi Tony,
Very sensible to wait for the cyclone season to pass.  We've just heard all about Claire on the news.  I wouldn't fancy being in that!
As for what brings us there... we've decided to come and live here (Perth) for a couple of years.  By the time we leave, it'll be *almost* as long as you've been at sea!  I guess you don't get much time to surf (the electronic variety), but if you do, check out www.morgansdownunder.blogspot.com.  To leave a comment you'll need the username 'morgancomment' and password 'morgan'.

Hi Tony,

Hope you are well, inspected any good Bridges lately.  I spoke to Mike W at Christmas who mentioned that you had sold the plane and set off on your trip.

Good Luck and Best Wishes.

Martin (ex Hereford and Worcester CC)

Mark Morgan
What takes you to Aus? I am waiting for the Cyclone season to end and doing work to bring Cariad up to a good enough standard to get around the Cape of Good Hope. My route is given in the progress report section. I'm going north of Aus via Darwin.
Trust you are keeping busy.

Sue and Doug
Hope you are all well and wising you a very happy new year.

Ben
Heavey Chritmass here, cooked my first ever Christmass dinner (for 4 other cruisers) no one got ill and they said it was very good?


Brian Wye Valley Printers
Thanks for the message, post to here is very slow. I hope to get back to Ross for February so may get to see you. Your cards are very well recieved and look better than 99% of the other boats cards, that blue background is just perfect as it sujests blue water (deep ocean) cruising.

Peter Kirby
You should have texted the phone is never taken off the boat so mostly I recieve messages that way. Sorry to hear about Ray Hanna, only met him once, his ledgend will live on for a very long time. I trust there is to be a memorial flight of Spitfires for him? it should be impressive. Could he be the last of the few to fly a Spit. Gilbert is this a question you can answere or are you too busy trying to fix Mr Bianci's Mark IXX.

Tony

Hi Tony, thanks for the email.  Glad you are okay.  Tried to phone you Xmas Day, our Xmas Eve.  Expect you were living it up partying.  Sounds a good place to be.  We went to the "Till".  Usual eight at the table.  All send their love and wish you a happy and safe New Year.
Heard Ray Hanna has passed away.  Sad news.  No more 20'0" up the pit straight at Goodwood!!
  Looking forward to Feb.  Pity your date just misses a good jazz evening at Upton.  Take care.  All the best.
Love, Gill, Porgy, Bess, Jack, Josh and me.

Hi Tony,
There was me thinking you are on a trouble free fun holiday but as they say everything has its costs.
Keep up the good work - your new business cards are on their way and should be with you in the next 7-10 days.
Best wishes from us all.
Regards
Brian

Tony,

I seem to have mislaid Christmas somewhere, but a very happy new year to you.

Ben

missed a good night  at the local!!!  happy new year  hope to see you soon god bless xx louise send her love

Happy new year Tony!
4 months in Fiji.  Either that's some holiday, or the boat needed lots of work doing to it.  Were you waiting for the appropriate weather conditions?
Whereabouts in Australia are you going to be heading, and when are you likely to be there?  I saw a tall-ship under full sail off Fremantle today, and thought of you.  I have to say the tall-ship looked a little more roomy than Cariad!
Be lucky.
M

James Callahan
You missed Todd as he is here in Savusavu and has recruted Katty (from peace corp) to crew him to Koro where he may stay until April.
The social life here is getting quite good though the new night club by the Bula Ray is not up to much.
Watui has openned a cafe, but Copra Shed has started to impose a sort of dress code which is being applied to locals but not to Yachties so the Yachties are moving to Watui in solidarity with the locals.
See you when you get back.

Tony