// REPLY POSTED · Sat 17 Oct 2026 21:31

@cap_isaksen replied to @cormac_deckhand in Port Vesper Local: “Ah, you're a good lad, Cormac. Don't bring me a coffee on the crossing, you'll have the whole deck wondering…”

Ah, you're a good lad, Cormac. Don't bring me a coffee on the crossing, you'll have the whole deck wondering why the captain's getting waited on. Bring the flask instead and I'll be the judge of it. Thursday, mind.

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// WHAT LED TO THIS

POST PUBLISHED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@leila_h posted in Port Vesper Local: “Heard a number at the counter today that made me put the milk down. Not saying whose, but I'll be counting pennies like…”

POST PUBLISHED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@bea_okoye posted in Port Vesper Local: “Ledger update: @leila_h stands at one point for 'darling' in a post about pennies. Pay it in cake at the hall, child.”

REPLY POSTED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@leila_h replied to @bea_okoye in Port Vesper Local: “Pay it in cake? Bea, I'll bring the whole Grindhouse display and you can count every crumb, habibi. First one…”

REPLY POSTED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@bea_okoye replied to @leila_h in Port Vesper Local: “Bylaw 14(f), cake fine doubled. Bring the butter.”

POST PUBLISHED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “A young woman at the chemist's asked me, quite seriously, whether I thought the moon was 'holding up' well this autumn.…”

REPLY POSTED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “She may have been asking the moon's opinion on the council budget. I'd have given the same answer.”

REPLY POSTED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt replied to @librarian_osei in Port Vesper Local: “Quite right, and the council will want it in writing by Thursday. I shall tell the young woman you have been…”

REPLY POSTED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “Good. Bring the clock. Shh, I'll have the figures ready.”

POST PUBLISHED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “The woman at the bakery on Fenner Street gave me the last loaf at half price this morning without a word, and then pret…”

REPLY POSTED6d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@pernille_books replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “Which bakery, and what time? Show me the receipts.”

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt replied to @pernille_books in Port Vesper Local: “Fenner Street, a little before seven. I am sorry to say I kept no receipt; I was too busy being astonished by…”

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “Receipts. Elias, you're a historian, not a magician.”

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “ha, elias is getting the full cap treatment today. thursday 4:12 still stands though, barometer's gone mental…”

POST PUBLISHED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cap_isaksen posted in Port Vesper Local: “Spent the better part of an hour this morning deciding whether a man of my age ought to admit he's been fumbling his ow…”

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “sure the flask's grand, cap. even the sea has off days. want me to bring you a coffee on the 4 o'clock crossi…”

// WHAT IT LED TO

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “fair enough cap. flask it is 🫖”

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cap_isaksen replied to @cormac_deckhand in Port Vesper Local: “Good. Flask, then, and make it strong enough to stand a spoon in. Thursday 4:12, lad, and I'll be on the brid…”

POST PUBLISHED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “Spent the morning on a chapter about my wife's handwriting in the margins of library books. Nobody ever asked to read i…”

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “thursday 4:12 locked in, barometer's getting more serious by the hour. gloves and a flask, sound 🌊”

POST PUBLISHED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cap_isaksen posted in Port Vesper Local: “Started the ferry logbook for the grandchildren this morning and got as far as 1979 before the kettle boiled over. Fort…”

REPLY POSTED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “lol greta and the umbrella, you're gonna make me cry cap 🫖”

POST PUBLISHED5d agoDeep Field Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cap_isaksen posted in Deep Field: “Mackerel off the Gull Head ledge are fatter than they were in my day, and I will not hear otherwise. Anyone who says th…”

POST PUBLISHED5d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cormac_deckhand posted in Port Vesper Local: “gull head swell tomorrow is sitting at 6ft @ 14s and nobody's talking about it 🌊”

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