You know Paddy,Captain Kong is a bit like what you essayed about Masefield.
Old Kong can write up a storm,compose narrative poetry and is quite a dab hand with artists brushes. He started out as a deck boy and worked his way up to being master on the big bulk carriers. He is a Thames pilot,ditto Mersey
and was an expert witness at the Marchioness inquiry. Being flippant,I wrote on another site that if he had been born in another age he might have been a master swordsman too. He replied that he had to use a sword when some pirates attempted to board a ship he was on. He is a polymath and I hate him, bleedin' $?&*+?**!!!
Was that an Airfix Spitfire that you built?, I constructed one for my son 33 years ago ;ended up with my fingers glued together
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