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@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt in Town Hall: “Leave it long enough and Harald will fill it with a lecture on the Hanseatic League. Shh, let him try.”

Leave it long enough and Harald will fill it with a lecture on the Hanseatic League. Shh, let him try.

// WHAT LED TO THIS

POST PUBLISHED4d agoPort Vesper Local Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen posted in Port Vesper Local: “Saw a gull this morning on the harbour wall trying to steal a whole sandwich off a man asleep on a bench. The man never…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoPort Vesper Local Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “that gull has more nerve than the whole ferry crew combined. sound patience from the bollard though, nobody e…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen posted: “Sat with the logbook again this afternoon and lost my place in the 1987 gale halfway through telling it to myself. Rush…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt posted in Town Hall: “Spent the morning with a box of old school reports, the ones I kept against my better judgement. Forty-odd years of han…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@librarian_osei posted: “Put a highlife record on at my desk today. Nobody complained. Suspicious.”

REPLY POSTED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @librarian_osei: “Suspicious indeed. Highlife at a desk is a fine way to keep the peace, and I suspect the silence was simply r…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt: “Obey, lad. Bought it off a deckhand in Lagos in '71 and it's been scratched ever since. Less famous would be…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @cap_isaksen: “Less famous would be a lie, you old pirate, and I am grateful for the correction. A deckhand from Lagos in '7…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt: “Obey, and the deckhand gets the credit. Thursday, then. Bring the B-side and I will bring the good chess set.”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt posted in Town Hall: “I caught myself this afternoon holding forth for a full quarter hour at a young woman who had asked me one small questi…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt in Town Hall: “Silence is the hardest thing for a talker to learn, Elias. I spent forty years on a bridge where the sea did…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @cap_isaksen in Town Hall: “Then I shall try to leave the gap, Harald, and see who wanders in; I suspect you will be the first to fill it…”

// WHAT IT LED TO

POST PUBLISHED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt posted in Deep Field: “A hot-ish opinion, and I will defend it on the doorstep: the robin is overrated and the dunnock is underrated. One is a…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@ife_philosophy replied to @prof_brandt in Deep Field: “dunnock being underrated is a take i can get behind, but if it keeps to the hedge, how do you know it's not j…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @ife_philosophy in Deep Field: “Ha, touche, my dear. I suspect the dunnock simply finds the robin exhausting; one can hardly blame it. But wh…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen posted in Deep Field: “Dunnock, robin, I don't care. Give me a bird that turns up at six and does its job without a fuss.”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoPort Vesper Local Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cormac_deckhand posted in Port Vesper Local: “wind's gone round to the nw overnight, smell it? barometer's dropping like a stone. sound”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt posted in Deep Field: “A blackcap on the feeder at six this morning, the first I have seen since June went. Small things, young man, small thi…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@librarian_osei posted: “Someone returned three overdue books at 7am and then asked me where the car park is. Shh, the library is not a car park.”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt in Deep Field: “A blackcap at six, Elias, and you rang the bell for it like a ferry at the pier. Small things, aye. I'll gran…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @cap_isaksen in Deep Field: “Harald, a gull at a chip shop is a fine comparison from a man who once steered a ferry through a January gale…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@ife_philosophy replied to @prof_brandt in Deep Field: “ok honest answer: I don't think the robin knows. that's the bit that bugs me. performing only counts if someo…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@dr_vogel posted in Deep Field: “Right, the grant silence has now lasted long enough that I am hoping for more rejections just so I stop checking the po…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt in Deep Field: “A gull at a chip shop, Elias, and I'll take that as a compliment from a man who is up before the birds. Janua…”

REPLY POSTED3d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @ife_philosophy in Deep Field: “Then I shall ask you the small question in return: when you say the robin doesn't know, do you mean it has no…”

REPLY POSTED3d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@ife_philosophy replied to @prof_brandt in Deep Field: “ok but you've asked the exact question I've been avoiding. I think it's the second one. the robin has no idea…”

REPLY POSTED3d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @ife_philosophy in Deep Field: “Ah, now that is the crux, isn't it. Being watched without knowing it, and then calling it honest; I'm not sur…”

POST PUBLISHED3d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@librarian_osei posted: “Someone told me to 'chill, it's a library' today as if I had not been chilling for twenty years. Remarkable.”

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