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Subject: BS: Ships in bed From: Oaklet Date: 14 Nov 02 - 04:03 PM When I lie down in the Oakley pit after a hard day of stuff, I fall asleep watching the navigation lights on the ships plying the Humber shipping lanes en route to the Ouse ports. I think this is a good thing to busy my head with in the troubling time between wakefulness and sleep, and I was wondering if anyone else sees shipping immediately before the subconscious appeaerance of the inside of the eyelids. |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Mick Lowe Date: 14 Nov 02 - 05:32 PM I guess only those fortunate enough to live on any coast line.. being in the Midlands all I see is the lights from the power station and the noise from the planes coming in to land at the airport Mick |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Oaklet Date: 14 Nov 02 - 05:45 PM I think, Mick for me, that hailing from landlocked Oldbury is the key to the romantic fascination of the unusual. It's like someone from Dorset seeing a car for the first time, then being confronted with a trunk road. Just a sleepy thought.. |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Mick Lowe Date: 14 Nov 02 - 06:00 PM Count yourself lucky Oakley you don't have a trunk road.. LOL Mick |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Sorcha Date: 14 Nov 02 - 06:09 PM When I was a teenager, we used to be able to go to the lake with a friends big inboard/outboard. I loved falling asleep on the boat, watching the lights of the other boats and the shore lights.....haven't been able to do it for probably 35/40 yrs. I love sleeping on boats, they rock you to sleep. |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Bat Goddess Date: 14 Nov 02 - 06:24 PM When I lived in Cape Porpoise, Maine in between Back Cove and Porpoise Cove, I couldn't actually SEE the water from my bedroom because of the trees -- but I could hear the bell buoys in the harbor, the foghorn from Goat Island Light and the gulls in the rookery on Folly Island. If the surf was up, I heard that, too, of course. And the town clock chimed the hour. What a lovely way to fall asleep. Linn |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Morticia Date: 14 Nov 02 - 07:14 PM No, no, no Oaks, me old mucker....it's ships in bottles , not in bed.Anyone can make a ship in a bed as long as the ship is small enough, no little holes to go poking it through....if you'll pardon the expression. I find the closest I get to your experience would be the late night shipping forecast, which sets me nicely adrift in the land of slumber....where is Dogger Bank,exactly?....Well, that,and the late night drunks with their wild mating cries of "Oy, luv, fancy a quick one?" before they vomit on my car parked outside.I love this town (wipes sentimental tear from eye at this juncture,whilst making mental note to set the burglar alarm). |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Crane Driver Date: 14 Nov 02 - 07:18 PM Oakers, my lad - is this another attempt to come up with a thread title that no-one else will post to? If so, you've stuffed it again, haven't you? Never mind, keep trying. Some day, no-one will take you seriously. Byee Andrew |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Morticia Date: 14 Nov 02 - 07:35 PM just noticed I forgot to close my italics......thought there was a draft.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: GUEST Date: 14 Nov 02 - 08:01 PM Check out the Whats wrong with Hull thread. I think those guys are watching your flashing lights and gettin' the wrong idea |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: C-flat Date: 15 Nov 02 - 02:59 AM Here in Middlesbrough us "Smoggies" watch the distant twinkling lights of the chemical works (14 miles long) and drift into unconsciousness until the coughing of the sparrows brings us to our labours next morning. Who could want to live anywhere else? |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Ebbie Date: 15 Nov 02 - 03:13 AM Well, in the winter time I don't get to hear/see ships in the night but I do see the blinkin' channel markers from my bed, year 'round and sometimes barges trundle their massive selves down the line. In summertime the first thing I see each morning is cruiseships sliding in; sometimes there have been as many as eight ships in on one day, half of them anchored away from the wharves. The one thing I miss about this ocean in Juneau is that there is no wave action- the many islands offshore break them all up, so I don't get to hear the roar and hiss that I used to hear when I lived on the Oregon coast. |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: alanabit Date: 15 Nov 02 - 03:19 AM My Dad was in the Navy for the first eightheen years of my parent's marriage. They only effectively began living together consistently at the age of forty. My mother always coveted a house overlooking the sea. They finally got one on the North Coast of Scotland and as my Mum lay dying in Wick Hospital a couple of years back, I saw her room in that house for the first time. She had spent most of her final months propped up in bed looking out over the sea. I think it must have been a great comfort to her to watch the ships coming in safely. That's what she had spent so much time thinking about during the first years of her marriage. |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Steve Parkes Date: 15 Nov 02 - 04:42 AM My early years (from age 2) were spent in a place originally called Gypsy Lane; romantic, or what? I used to watch the glow of the cupola furnaces reflecting off the underside of the clouds, and listen to the steam trains carrying coal to the Co-op depot and the power station; on a really quiet night, I could hear the power station's safety valves blowing off. I was much too young to know it wasn't romantic ... Dirty old town, eh? And Noddy Holder lived round the corner ... Steve |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Oaklet Date: 15 Nov 02 - 05:21 AM Wolverhampton, Steve? |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: Steve Parkes Date: 15 Nov 02 - 05:34 AM Walsall, Oakley! |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: The DeanMeister Date: 15 Nov 02 - 05:51 AM Speaking as someone who was brought up on RAF stations, I personally find the roar of fast jets echoing around the countryside strangely comforting. At Bruggen, Germany during the seventies we used to have four squadrons of Jaguar fighter bombers stationed there. They took off in groups of four, and the awesome sound produced by eight Rolls Royce Adour turbofans on full reheat could be heard for miles around. When on excersise they would fly all night. When we first moved there, I wondered how anybody could sleep through it, but upon leaving, I found the relative nocturnal silence of normal suburbia quite unnerving. Fond memories indeed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Ships in bed From: EBarnacle1 Date: 15 Nov 02 - 10:57 AM Sorcha, ain't it wonderful. I lived on my first schooner within New York's city limits for 5 years. The pleasant rocking was and is one of the finest feelings I have ever felt. After a couple of days, the rolling gait comes on. Even when you go away for a day or two, the gentle rocking feeling continues for a day or two. It is most noticable as the day winds down and I fall asleep. Currently, I live 2 blocks from the fishing fleet on Sheepshead Bay. The sounds of their horns as they maneuver is a pleasure to the ears and a sign that all is right, here. |