Did you used to write letters when you were 'courting'?

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

'Dear Lorraine. Hope the ticket ticket office is treating you well....'

 

[paulchapo]

I did but I was away at sea from the age of 17. We lived for those letters from home from family, friends and the latest girlfriend you'd met while on leave. The days before the internet and mobile phones it was our only contact with home, often for months. The scented ones were the best.

 

[Barcon]

I did but I was away at sea from the age of 17. We lived for those letters from home from family, friends and the latest girlfriend you'd met while on leave. The days before the internet and mobile phones it was our only contact with home, often for months. The scented ones were the best.

When we first moved to Canada (I was 15) we would send cassette tapes back home that would get passed around the family then they would send one back.
I think it took about 6 weeks to get over. So roughly 3 months to have a conversation.
My mate used to send me the newspapers whenever City were on the back pages. I still have them.

 

[paulchapo]

When we first moved to Canada (I was 15) we would send cassette tapes back home that would get passed around the family then they would send one back.
I think it took about 6 weeks to get over. So roughly 3 months to have a conversation.
My mate used to send me the newspapers whenever City were on the back pages. I still have them.

I remember one Christmas we were doing four months sixty miles off Indonesia connected to a pipe slow loading butane gas. It was a stir crazy time as you can imagine. Come Christmas day and we're all having a drink when one of the blokes puts on a cassette his daughters has made for him singing Christmas carols and messages. Lots of blokes had something in their eye that day!

I can relate to the newspapers. My mum and dad used to send me them, they were like manna from heaven especially the Sunday ones with the football reports in. I had to lock my cabin door as everyone wanted a read of them and no way was I letting them go until I'd read the print off them lol.

 

[Barcon]

I remember one Christmas we were doing four months sixty miles off Indonesia connected to a pipe slow loading butane gas. It was a stir crazy time as you can imagine. Come Christmas day and we're all having a drink when one of the blokes puts on a cassette his daughters has made for him singing Christmas carols and messages. Lots of blokes had something in their eye that day!

I can relate to the newspapers. My mum and dad used to send me them, they were like manna from heaven especially the Sunday ones with the football reports in. I had to lock my cabin door as everyone wanted a read of them and no way was I letting them go until I'd read the print off them lol.

Haha. Great memories eh? I'll have to dig out those papers this weekend.

 

[paulchapo]

Haha. Great memories eh? I'll have to dig out those papers this weekend.

Mine are long gone, left onboard the ships and thrown away. I still have a lot of old letters though. I do read the odd one now and then but they're quite sad, memories of a time I was young, fit, travelling the world and getting laid lol.

Ha ha I just remembered this song, bloody maudlin time!

 

[Winchester]

It was either a letter or a long late evening phone call that your old man would flag you up on when the phone bill arrived.

Yes i was used to him yelling at full volume
"Get off that Bloody Phone"

 

[Winchester]

I used to recieve regular death threats from my exes when we split up

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I've spent many a warm summers day in doors, writing frightening verse, to a bucked tooth girl in Luxembourg.

 

[paulchapo]

I've spent many a warm summers day in doors, writing frightening verse, to a bucked tooth girl in Luxembourg.

Reminds me of this song....