Good morning everyone. It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Vulkan. Last week I was teaching some baby sailors how to use a bit of kit they’ll be using wen they eventually join their ships and this week I’m in the simulators.
I do most of my writing during my lunches and spare time during the working day. There’s a saying in the Royal Navy. Never poop on your own time, always poop on the Kings time.
Anyways when I teach and I have a new course I always start the week with introductions and it got me thinking.
So here I am with this short post. I would love to know about you!! Do you have a funny story? Do you have an awesome moment that happened to you? Favourite place you’ve travelled to and why?
I’ll start us off with some examples.
So I’ve started an all day drinking session on a Saturday, in the UK and woke up Sunday morning, in the Netherlands, with no idea how I got there. I think I got a ship over and my mother recalls me getting my passport at about 5 in the afternoon.
Emilia Clarke once touched my arm, whilst I was wearing my ceremonial number 1 uniform and told me that she’s always liked a man in uniform. Lads, I’m sorry to say I did not acquit myself well. I could feel myself going red, which made her smile more and I think I just babbled out some gobbledegook which made the guy next to me piss himself with laughter.
I’ve been to South Georgia and got chased by a male elephant seal as my mate though it would be clever to go as close as possible to it with his Go-Pro in a stick.
So there you go. I hope I hear from you all that read this. Please comment. Please subscribe.
I hope I find you all happy and healthy
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I was a ball boy on the AVP and got to pepper with Karch Kiraly, the greatest volleyball player of all time.
Sitting in the backseat of a car in Mumbai, waiting for the driver to pick something up, window is half down, my friend and I were talking when an elephant trunk came in through the window behind her ... I must've gotten pale, she says: what is is? It took me, what seemd ages, to figure out what that was, .. there is an elephant trunk in our car??!! My brain just could not comprehend or find the words .. then it touched her...
total panick, she screams, I scream, she tries to roll the window up, I try to stop her, thank God it was a krank and too far down to squeeze that trunk!! I already saw myself squished to a pulp. Then the driver was there, yelling loudly and the trunk dissapeared. The guy with the elephant apologized and we all laughed.
I will never know why I didn't get out of that car right away...