tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-11-15:/Life, past, present and planned.MokoFeed2009-11-15T09:36:27+01:00tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-11-11:/2009/11/10/rhine-cruise-7343300/#c11465578jakepithf2009-11-11T10:59:51+01:002009-11-11T10:59:51+01:00Excellent as always.<br> I just see our tiny narrowboat doing the same trip, hmmmm.<br> Mo<br> tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-11-09:/2009/11/06/retired-not-quite-7321402/#c11448162jakepithf2009-11-09T14:44:15+01:002009-11-09T14:44:15+01:00Hi Geoff<br> Great to see you back on the 'net, super pics too, brings back memories of work in Southampton when the cruise ships, PO cable layers and ferries had their radios, radars, gyros and echo sounders fixed by Redifon at Queens Terrace.<br> I hasten to add that I was only an assistant to Bob Banks the resident engineer, missed by all who knew him.<br> <br> Keep up the good work.<br> Mo<br> <br> tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-02-04:/2009/02/03/in-the-snow-5497753/#c9002334hazgeoff2009-02-04T11:58:02+01:002009-02-04T11:58:02+01:00You have me sussed, least the snow on the ground is real.tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-02-03:/2009/02/03/in-the-snow-5497753/#c8993569loiswakeman2009-02-03T15:25:58+01:002009-02-03T15:25:58+01:00You both look very heroic there: "I may be gone some time". I look forward to more snowy scenes in due course - Photoshopped of course now you have the skills!tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-02-03:/2009/02/03/in-the-snow-5497753/#c8993552hazgeoff2009-02-03T15:24:01+01:002009-02-03T15:24:01+01:00Only 20 miles inland and it was a different story. Stayed here long enough for me to get some pics so I was quite happy for it to clear.<br> Geofftag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-02-03:/2009/02/03/in-the-snow-5497753/#c8991910jakepithf2009-02-03T12:37:59+01:002009-02-03T12:37:59+01:00Ah, so we didn't all get buried in the stuff. We thought we were the only ones to get off lightly.<br> Hope the ol' fella is alright, at least its warm in those places.<br> Mo tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-02-01:/2009/01/28/a-new-year-5464088/#c8968851hazgeoff2009-02-01T10:27:44+01:002009-02-01T10:27:44+01:00Thanks Mo<br> She certainly has the knack, they are so lifelike.<br> Just hoping she gets an outlet for them.<br> Geofftag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-01-31:/2009/01/28/a-new-year-5464088/#c8963372jakepithf2009-01-31T15:53:49+01:002009-01-31T15:53:49+01:00Hi Geoff<br> Love the photos you ain't half bad at it either.<br> Tell me those aren't real flowers then. They must be.<br> Good to see you up and about again.<br> Mo<br> tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-01-28:/2009/01/28/a-new-year-5464088/#c8935513hazgeoff2009-01-28T17:50:02+01:002009-01-28T17:50:02+01:00I certainly will thank you.tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-01-28:/2009/01/28/a-new-year-5464088/#c8935489loiswakeman2009-01-28T17:47:58+01:002009-01-28T17:47:58+01:00Hello stranger. Enjoy the course!tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2009-01-27:/2008/10/21/london-to-paris-by-bike-4907949/#c8920930jakepithf2009-01-27T11:43:27+01:002009-01-27T11:43:27+01:00We're still reading your Blog Geoff, but could do with a few more words now that its 2009.<br> Mo<br> tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-11-04:/2007/01/16/history~1563583/#c8171648laurie barnett2008-11-04T17:25:06+01:002008-11-04T17:25:06+01:00Hi Geoff(?), I was at PWSTS in 1964, I found your blog while browsing. I did 5 years with NZSCo, Port Line, United Baltic Co and Trinity House. Had a great time and still miss the sea.<br> Been in the construction industry since then, now a building surveyor, retiring soon. You seem to have done a lot and still on tugs. I'm thinking of a narrowboat for when I retire, I fancy wandering the canals in the summer and working on my son's house in France in the winter.<br> <br> If this reaches you, drop me a line and best wishes.<br> Laurie<br> tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-08-24:/2008/08/18/time-flies-4605186/#c7584169jakepithf2008-08-24T12:17:49+02:002008-08-24T12:17:49+02:00It's always worth the wait.<br> Good to see you're still thinking of us.<br> Motag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-05-30:/2008/05/29/the-reason-i-ve-been-missing-4243014/#c6927433hazgeoff2008-05-30T18:10:49+02:002008-05-30T18:10:49+02:00Thanks Mo<br> <br> I I wouldn't go back there, but they made me an offer to good to refuse. Can't progress our plans this year anyhow (various family reasons).<br> <br> I know where the GU is it was my playground as a nipper.<br> We often take a visit round Linslade area as Fiona lives in Luton.<br> Geofftag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-05-30:/2008/05/29/the-reason-i-ve-been-missing-4243014/#c6927272jakepithf2008-05-30T17:46:28+02:002008-05-30T17:46:28+02:00Sorry to hear about her gammy leg, trust it gets back to the strength it had before. And don't forget to follow the physio's advice.<br> <br> Also terribly sorry to hear you're going back to wet work Geoff but jolly glad its got ship picture potential. If you're at a loose end with the dredger then we could use you on the Grand Union (up Thames then turn right at Brentford I think).<br> <br> Good to see you back on the air mate.<br> <br> Motag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-05-30:/2008/05/29/the-reason-i-ve-been-missing-4243014/#c6925564hazgeoff2008-05-30T13:36:05+02:002008-05-30T13:36:05+02:00thanks she certainly does, it was nasty for a while.tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-05-29:/2008/05/29/the-reason-i-ve-been-missing-4243014/#c6918856xmillyxxx2008-05-29T16:13:34+02:002008-05-29T16:13:34+02:00Ouch!! Hope she feels a bit better xtag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-02-10:/2008/01/31/semi_retired~3659374/#c6015624jakepithf2008-02-10T19:24:21+01:002008-02-10T19:24:21+01:00Did you go to Camber sands? Was that you there back in 19xx?<br> Oh happy days, oh happy daze.<br> <br> Back to Geoff - keep the pictures coming, I'm missing Kent and east Sussex terribly. Any pictures of the wooden houses up the east end of Hastings? Is the windmill still there in Rye? <br> And if you're ever passing Northiam take some shots of the village for me, spent some hot summers and warm winters there as a lad.<br> <br> Motag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-01-31:/2008/01/31/semi_retired~3659374/#c5916136loiswakeman2008-01-31T17:34:37+01:002008-01-31T17:34:37+01:00Welcome aboard again!<br> <br> My grandad lived in Hastings, and trips on the funicular, to Fairlight, and train rides to Dungeness were always a happy memory. Other things: the museum where we always rushed to see the stuffed spoonbill (is is still there I wonder?), the fishing sheds, and Bottle Alley.<br> <br> Aah - happy days.tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2008-01-31:/2008/01/31/semi_retired~3659374/#c5915329jakepithf2008-01-31T16:03:05+01:002008-01-31T16:03:05+01:00Tis grand seeing you back on the blog.<br> <br> I like the pics, Hastings railway reminded me of the caves half way up that we paid a couple of pence to visit. Years later someone opened a club inside and the price went up.<br> <br> Happy New Year!!<br> Motag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-12-13:/2007/10/03/missing~3077745/#c5471987jakepithf2007-12-13T15:20:43+01:002007-12-13T15:20:43+01:00Hi Geoff<br> I still check in here every day, everything OK?<br> <br> Here's wishing you a brilliant Christmas.<br> <br> Motag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-10-10:/2007/10/03/missing~3077745/#c4872254hazgeoff2007-10-10T08:43:45+02:002007-10-10T08:43:45+02:00Your very kind Mo, flattery will get you every where, rest assured any ship, barge etc opportunities and I will do me best. No commission req'd cos you is an old salt.<br> Geofftag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-10-09:/2007/10/03/missing~3077745/#c4867575jakepithf2007-10-09T18:17:49+02:002007-10-09T18:17:49+02:00Well I reckon the pics are quite 'strordinary, I'm trying to download them and sell them to the magazines but they just won't come down for some reason.<br> You've certainly got a knack of spotting the right angle on everything you shoot so I'm not complaining. <br> I just wish I could 'see' the same thing when I look through the hole in the back of my Brownie.<br> <br> Didn't see any Thames barges in the latest batch. Wassa marrer wiv you, can't you take commissions (unpaid ones I'm afraid).<br> <br> Just forget the garden and do what you're good at. Snap - snap.<br> <br> Mo<br> <br> tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-10-04:/2007/09/01/a_resume_of_august~2905045/#c4826987hazgeoff2007-10-04T20:58:23+02:002007-10-04T20:58:23+02:00Sadly mostly gone Mo. But I will endeavour to take as and when opportunity arises.<br> Geofftag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-10-03:/2007/09/01/a_resume_of_august~2905045/#c4812392Mo2007-10-03T11:21:09+02:002007-10-03T11:21:09+02:00Sharp stick, prod, prod.<br> <br> Seems you bin forgetting your readers matey.<br> <br> Not on the boat? then get up to Deal and take some piccues of those Thames barges before they all disappear. They are still there aren't they? They were when I last visited in 1980.<br> <br> Mo<br> <br> tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-09-25:/2007/09/01/a_resume_of_august~2905045/#c4747608the_gardener2007-09-25T22:20:07+02:002007-09-25T22:20:07+02:00I love the boat pictures. When we returned to Dover on Rodin, 22 August, a rough day, there was a tug about, I thought, there he is.tag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-09-02:/2007/09/01/a_resume_of_august~2905045/#c4522662hazgeoff2007-09-02T20:16:15+02:002007-09-02T20:16:15+02:00Thanks Mo will do my best, aint got the sticks yet, still working on the boat stuff. Must start looking at them when I get the time.<br> Geofftag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-09-02:/2007/09/01/a_resume_of_august~2905045/#c4521382jakepithf2007-09-02T18:02:07+02:002007-09-02T18:02:07+02:00Now we're talking...those piccies, love them, I can feel the swell under the tug, smell the ropes, hear the duty frees rattling in the secret lockers. Oooh I'm transported back 30 years.<br> <br> Glad you're back at the wheel/autopilot, I'll be that much sadder the day you finish but I guess they don't take too kindly to sailors with walking sticks and you do have to go sometime.<br> <br> Hope you've got those narrowboat plans started.<br> <br> And don't forget to raid the flag locker on your last day.<br> <br> Keep snapping while there's still breath.<br> <br> Motag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-09-01:/2007/09/01/a_resume_of_august~2905045/#c4514929hazgeoff2007-09-01T19:34:57+02:002007-09-01T19:34:57+02:00I like to try for myself mainly but if others enjoy all the better.<br> Geofftag:hazgeoff.blog.co.uk,2007-09-01:/2007/09/01/a_resume_of_august~2905045/#c4514150sallyontour2007-09-01T17:44:51+02:002007-09-01T17:44:51+02:00Great pics, that last one's a beauty!