Steady on you boys, have been working real hard on the ship and have been onto the ministry of fisheries to find out if any licences or authorisation is needed for catching sea scopium. It turns out that it is an endangered species and all possibilities of trying to catch one will have to be put on hold. So a change to the plan and design modifications with a glass bottom being designed to fit in the semi-submarine and the full intention is to run trips watching sea scopium. A harmonium has been acquired to go in the lounge area. By the way Mr Gunn the spanners have been found in the flower board next to the outdoor piano near the back door. They were being used as exercise weights.

Can I swap jobs with Steve? I think i should be cabin boy as i've got the name for it, then you can all shout out every hour , ' ARRR JIM LAD' !!

Are any of the original Page family still living? I have tried getting an update on the brothers and sisters but I can't find anything about them, apart from the making of the original TV program and the extract below.
What happened to their land and home?

Cheers Carl.

"..The question every viewer asks is: what became of the family? Mr Page did not live long, and Peter, the eldest son, died in the 1980s. “They were all very much loved by local people. When Peter died, the whole village turned out, and a steam engine covered in flowers, and people followed it,” says Trevelyan. Nancy and Kathy moved into a council house together and did car boot sales; Jim lived on in the wood for a bit..."

I once saw a sea scrotum ......................... I found it living in a fleshy sort of bag, in a crevis at the bottom of the sea..............

Thanks for that Richard, I've just spat tea all over the laptop.

Is this thread now dead ? or............... are you all playing around with those rusty old steam engines , ( they'll never catch on ! )

and havn't got time ......................

I've just built a half size Burrell................................IT'S ALL BRAND NEW !.................no rusty old boilers for me, or jangley old gears ( I'm not mentioning Fowler ploughing engines )

I think we are all waiting for the next installment!

Cheers Carl.

I see one of the crew members is after a shaper, just the job for scopium hunting. We can mount it on the poop deck and throw it at the scopium to stun it when we see one.

Thinking about it, a poop deck on a semi submersible might be a bit of a challenge. The deck crew would have to wear gum boots and the driver would have to be careful not to submerge below the tops of them.

Why is it called a poop deck anyway?

Apparently from the French poupe and the Latin puppis - poop , the after part of a ship .

Pooping was done from the ' heads ', the overhanging part at the bow .