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Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:42 pm

Graeme Rhodes wrote:

Heading to Esperance for a few days on Thursday. I passed through there a few years ago and figured I would return at some point.

Leave granted, Smiley, :happy:

just as soon as you've sent me the rest of your Tipster's Picks...! :evil3:

Gnomeranger · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:27 am

Finally home after 45hrs travel. Left Ft Lauderdale hotel at 0945 11/3 Flight to Detroit (buggered if I know why) then to LA, on to Sydney, train to Taree collect car home finally 1840 13/3 never again. Until July 24 then 15 day Vietnam/Cambodia.(glutton for punishment) :plane:

topjars · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 4:38 pm

Welcome home Greg... Im contemplating a trip to Florida then Ohio then home - I say contemplating because its bloody hard work these long haul flights

Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2025 10:33 am

home, Gnomeranger... :yess:

Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2025 8:27 pm

With no Leave Request :evil3:

submitted in advance, our Members :3some:

will be forgiven for thinking that one of your fearless Webmasters had simply gone A.W.O.L.... :obey:

....................................................................... ...'til a few telling photos began to surface... :happy3:

This first pic :laughing3:

might be a bit of a giveaway, shows Chippy Ned :wine:

and his better half Ellen :cocktail:

getting stuck into something chilled and sugar/ salt encrusted, but it
....................................................................... was [-X

definitely not taken in their loungeroom at home... [-(

Facebook posts revealed they're in fact getting stuck into a few :wine:

pre-sailing cocktails :cocktail:

in one of the many lounge bars :tchin:

aboard the Royal Princess... :omg1:

In fact the pair are but two of a party of sixteen in all, made up of 13th MOBI Intake Artificers and their respective wives, girlfriends and two of our much loved widows...

Of course, getting them all together for a group photo op prior to departure is worse than herding cats, the photo above :laughing3:

at least captured half of them...

L-R: Paulette Dunlop (widow of Bob 'Kip' Dunlop,) sharing with Denise Cocks, (widow of Chippy Bruce Cocks,) behind her in the hat, Pete Williamson, then Helen Williamson,
Les and Karen Handicott, Terry and Lorraine Gunton...

(Not present, Shang and Marlene Moffitt, Tim Baker and Brig, Bruce and Chris Chalmers, Ned and Ellen Kelly...)

I'd actually travelled down from the NSW Central Coast by train with Denice Cocks, and Bruce and Chris Chalmers with a view to catching up with a couple of '13th Intakers'
I'd not seen in a long while before they sailed, but unfortunately, they'd already boarded the ship by the time we arrived at Circular Quay and proved to be uncontactable..! :mobile:

As nobody was going to come ashore once embarked, there was no point in hanging around, so this :laughing3:

pic was taken from the ferry I caught en route to Barangaroo and home...

Bruce D · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2025 9:40 pm

Requesting 4 Days leave to travel to the Sunshine Coast, for the ETP's reunion.

Stroppy Chippie · **Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2025 12:06 am

Hippy Chippy wrote:

With no Leave Request :evil3:

submitted in advance, our Members :3some:

will be forgiven for thinking that one of your fearless Webmasters had simply gone A.W.O.L.... :obey:

....................................................................... ...'til a few telling photos began to surface... :happy3:

This first pic :laughing3:

might be a bit of a giveaway, shows Chippy Ned :wine:

and his better half Ellen :cocktail:

getting stuck into something chilled and sugar/ salt encrusted, but it
....................................................................... was [-X

definitely not taken in their loungeroom at home... [-(

Facebook posts revealed they're in fact getting stuck into a few :wine:

pre-sailing cocktails :cocktail:

in one of the many lounge bars :tchin:

aboard the Royal Princess... :omg1:

In fact the pair are but two of a party of sixteen in all, made up of 13th MOBI Intake Artificers and their respective wives, girlfriends and two of our much loved widows...

Of course, getting them all together for a group photo op prior to departure is worse than herding cats, the photo above :laughing3:

at least captured half of them...

L-R: Paulette Dunlop (widow of Bob 'Kip' Dunlop,) sharing with Denise Cocks, (widow of Chippy Bruce Cocks,) behind her in the hat, Pete Williamson, then Helen Williamson,
Les and Karen Handicott, Terry and Lorraine Gunton...

(Not present, Shang and Marlene Moffitt, Tim Baker and Brig, Bruce and Chris Chalmers, Ned and Ellen Kelly...)

I'd actually travelled down from the NSW Central Coast by train with Denice Cocks, and Bruce and Chris Chalmers with a view to catching up with a couple of '13th Intakers'
I'd not seen in a long while before they sailed, but unfortunately, they'd already boarded the ship by the time we arrived at Circular Quay and proved to be uncontactable..! :mobile:

As nobody was going to come ashore once embarked, there was no point in hanging around, so this :laughing3:

pic was taken from the ferry I caught en route to Barangaroo and home...

Are tours of machinery spaces part of the cruise itinerary?
Will there be at least one "man overboard" exercise?
Are they required to chip and paint their area of ship?

Pony · **Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:10 am

Bruce D wrote:

Requesting 4 Days leave to travel to the Sunshine Coast, for the ETP's reunion.

Enjoy Bruce, and have a great time catching up :yea:

BC · **Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2025 5:51 am

Hope everyone has a great time on your cruise. And Bruce, great to see you heading off to catch up with Greenie mates. :drink 42:

Robert W Moult · **Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:12 am

Waste of time "Greenies" going on a cruise, when we all know that they'll spend most of the trip in their bunks. :count:

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