I fear you may be right Vince. The MV Joline is due in today..Chris has the detailed press release on the frontpage
http://www.dover.uk.com
If anyone gets a picture let us have it by all means. The angle isnt good for me but if I see the vessel will do what I can.
Nobody wants to see this trade return here to Dover...the Dover Harbour Board have pointed out several times now that they are obliged by law to do it and have no choice. The operators of the MV Joline must have thick skins indeed..
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But by way of a bit of light relief while we wait....
Some of you will remember those early TV ads back in the 1960's. The gloriously superfresh washing hanging on a clothes-line beside the rolling surf. The big thing then was to get the feel of the sea breezes wafting and permeating through your smalls.. so all would be nice and ever so fresh. They further conjured up this sea-fresh image by calling the packet of washing powder TIDE. Anyone remember this
"The dirt cant hide from intensified Tide"
There you are..I have been brainwashed by those early sung slogans
Well this image has lingered in the human sub-conscious since then and been passed down though generations, no doubt through the very genes..no not those jeans..genes!! A young lad came along on his bicycle the other day, opened up his rucksack and hung out all his washing on our local ziegfried line...as it were.
I have a picture of the chap himself but will spare his blushes and not use it, just in case he has broken a few harbour by-laws and we dont really want the long arm of the law on his trail. We dont want to see solicitors going through his briefs! No sir! So will make do with a picture of the washing itself fluttering in the breeze.
Never a dull moment down here on Dover Harbour.
