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They certainly did Ducky.

Did they say 'ooh bona'?

Julian and Sandy talked polari didn't they? ( a sort of camp language)

I used to love Beyond our Ken and Round the Horne. I used to listen to it with my dad on the radio (he was partially sighted.)

They often greeted Kenneth Horne with - Oh Mr. Horne, what brings you trolling in here?" The amazing thing was that the scripts passed the censors who thought it was all rather quaint.

I got all the double entendres but I don't think dad did, could be wrong there but he always kept a straight face.

Talking of pirates - when my sons were at Primary School they both wanted to go to the Fancy Dress Competition at the school and both wanted to be pirates.

As we walked down the lane to the school we met at least 20 other children dressed as pirates, same striped tee shirts and black patches over one eye.

Needless to say a pirate didn't win the competition. The winners were a boy and girl wonderfully kitted out as The Lion and The Unicorn!!

'Lovely to varda your dolly old eek' was one of their greetings. My gay cousin tells me that the gay community definitely have their own language.

Kenneth Williams was Julian, if I remember rightly...

Yes. "Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend, Sandy"...

Was that the one with Julian and his friend Sandy in it?

I loved that program. Wasn't it called that because of Kenneth Horne?

I'm thinking "Round the Horn(e)" perhaps?

I don't think that even in those days they'd have been allowed to get away with stuff like that on a children's programme!

I thought it was Tom the cabin boy? Roger was part of an urban myth, along with Seaman Staines.

Oh rosesarered

Roses I must have been so innocent at the time of Captain Pugwash I didn't get the double entendres. What a plonker.

That sounded fun Anya, better than you thought, are you talking about Cut Throat Jake? what about Roger the cabin boy and Master Bates?

Go for it NanKate!

I'm glad all went well for you Anya it sounds like fun.

It is my 70th next year and I have started a bucket list of things I want/intend to do, which will save DH asking 'what do you want to do for your big one'? I am thinking of being a bit more extravagant that normal.

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Pleasantly surprised by the Pirate Boat experience. We had great fun shooting passing boats with water pistols (Captain Jack was clever enough to make sure they were just out of range), and we had maps of the river to find numbered clues and with the correct combination these unlocked a pirate treasure box back at base.

Apart from that it was lovely to see the wildlife and the beautiful houses who backed into the river.

A bonus was that all the children behaved well enough for 4-5 year olds and no one fell overboard

Wonder if Captain Jake would consider a 70th birthday Pirate Party???

Poor you Anya, hardly a treat is it? more a duty.
NanKate, hmmmn that looks bad for East, at least in our area, have to find out about that.

Hope you manage to find a patch for your eye Anya.

My 4 and 2 yearly GSs had a joint pirate birthday party in February. It was great fun and fortunately on dry land, I like you don't like being on a boat bobbing around.

I wonder if anyone dresses up as a cowboy or Indian nowadays ? I had a Davy Crockett hat and very smart too.

Grandchildren love to draw you at your worst don't they?

The upshot is that today GS3 is having his birthday party on a Pirate boat on the Avon in Stratford as as poor little cousin has chicken pox she can't go. She was so looking forward to it too. Now there's a spare place Nana here has been drafted in to help on board.

If there's one thing I'm not fond of it's boats, especially smallish boats laden with over-excited 4-5 year olds

My DD seemed to think she was offering me a treat!

wanders off to seek out a pirate outfit

Sorry to hear about GD2 Anya having chicken pox. I remember when our DS got it both DH and myself caught it too. He recovered quickly we felt awful for a week or two. DS banned us from taking or collecting him from school as we looked so awful.

On a school visit a couple of months later his teacher showed us a picture he had drawn of DH and myself lying in bed covered in spots.

I'm a 12-14 depending on the fit (don't like tight clothes) so I never thought of Evans. I guess they are generous sizes so will have a look Ginny

Anya I don't know what size you are but it might be worth looking at Evans on line. I think they start at a 14 but often have longer length tops.