On 2013-07-05 09:48:52 +0100, Martin said:

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:50:21 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 00:29:07 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2013-07-04 23:08:48 +0100, Gary Woods said:

Phil Cook wrote:

To save you from having to recite there is no Red Port wine Left in
the bottle.

And for we river rats, "red right returning" (from or to the sea; I forget
which....so _that's_ how I ran aground!)

Your rules are different in USA, I think? I'm not at all sure about
this but I think that on leaving harbours in USA you leave green buoys
to port, which is not what we would do in UK and then you have Red
Right Returning, as you say. It's an awfully long time since I've
learned any of that and I've never sailed in USA so could be thoroughly
muddled. I hope not! The easiest way of remembering the left/right
thing is that Port and Left have the same number of letters.

You are right.. The USA,
North and South America, Canada. The Americas, the New World excluding
Oceana
Better shown on a map http://www.navipedia.pl/en/naviaidsiala.html

I'm glad I didn't have that to worry about as well. We're hoping to get
a day's sailing on the Helford later this month, x-fingers. I hope it
comes off though I doubt I'll be skipping about as lithely as I once
did. My sailing is probably more in the realms of sitting in the stern
with a g&t and asking someone to pass the peanuts. ;-)

--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

wrote in message ...

David Hill wrote:
Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?

Because you ... watch it?


No - No !
You watch tennis, tv etc. - lol
I suspect it derives from the military/naval term being "on watch".

Pete

On 04/07/2013 22:16, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:55:56 +0100, David Hill
wrote:

On 04/07/2013 21:41, 'Mike' wrote:


"David Hill" wrote in message ...

Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?



Don't know, but just as mysterious. Where do socks go when one
disappears? I have lost a right sock. Where is it?

Mike

How do you know it's the right one?
Lo you have them labelled left and right?

Left socks are red. Green socks are right ones..



Nah ... red socks are 'stop' ... green socks are 'go'.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On 05/07/2013 13:04, Spider wrote:
On 04/07/2013 22:16, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:55:56 +0100, David Hill
wrote:

On 04/07/2013 21:41, 'Mike' wrote:


"David Hill" wrote in message ...

Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?



Don't know, but just as mysterious. Where do socks go when one
disappears? I have lost a right sock. Where is it?

Mike

How do you know it's the right one?
Lo you have them labelled left and right?

Left socks are red. Green socks are right ones..



Nah ... red socks are 'stop' ... green socks are 'go'.

So that's why you walk round in circles is it?

Pete wrote:
Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?
Because you ... watch it?
No - No !
You watch tennis, tv etc. - lol

You're not a fan of clockwatching, then?

On 05/07/2013 14:22, wrote:
Pete wrote:
Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?
Because you ... watch it?
No - No !
You watch tennis, tv etc. - lol

You're not a fan of clockwatching, then?

Don't have the time.

David Hill wrote:
Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?
Because you ... watch it?
No - No !
You watch tennis, tv etc. - lol

You're not a fan of clockwatching, then?

Don't have the time.

Watch your watch, it'll tell you

On 05/07/2013 15:44, wrote:
David Hill wrote:
Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?
Because you ... watch it?
No - No !
You watch tennis, tv etc. - lol

You're not a fan of clockwatching, then?

Don't have the time.

Watch your watch, it'll tell you

Hang on a minute, I've got it writted down on a piece of paper...

--
Phil Cook

On 05/07/2013 15:59, Phil Cook wrote:
On 05/07/2013 15:44, wrote:
David Hill wrote:
Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?
Because you ... watch it?
No - No !
You watch tennis, tv etc. - lol

You're not a fan of clockwatching, then?

Don't have the time.

Watch your watch, it'll tell you

Hang on a minute, I've got it writted down on a piece of paper...

Thank you Eccles

On 05/07/2013 13:32, David Hill wrote:
On 05/07/2013 13:04, Spider wrote:
On 04/07/2013 22:16, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:55:56 +0100, David Hill
wrote:

On 04/07/2013 21:41, 'Mike' wrote:


"David Hill" wrote in message ...

Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?



Don't know, but just as mysterious. Where do socks go when one
disappears? I have lost a right sock. Where is it?

Mike

How do you know it's the right one?
Lo you have them labelled left and right?

Left socks are red. Green socks are right ones..



Nah ... red socks are 'stop' ... green socks are 'go'.

So that's why you walk round in circles is it?




Yup. Always wondered why :~).

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On 05/07/2013 20:40, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:04:20 +0100, wrote:

On 04/07/2013 22:16, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:55:56 +0100, David Hill
wrote:

On 04/07/2013 21:41, 'Mike' wrote:


"David Hill" wrote in message ...

Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?



Don't know, but just as mysterious. Where do socks go when one
disappears? I have lost a right sock. Where is it?

Mike

How do you know it's the right one?
Lo you have them labelled left and right?

Left socks are red. Green socks are right ones..



Nah ... red socks are 'stop' ... green socks are 'go'.

Orange socks are Dutch or Irish



I've got 1/16th Irish ancestry. No dutch. No orange socks, either.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 22:21:10 +0200, Martin wrote:

I've got 1/16th Irish ancestry. No dutch. No orange socks, either.

I've got 1/4 Irish ancestry and can't stand orange.

LOL. I'm 1/4 Irish too, so I assume your meaning is political.



--
Gardening in Lower Normandy

On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:45:00 +0200, Martin wrote:

On 6 Jul 2013 08:41:48 GMT, Emery Davis wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 22:21:10 +0200, Martin wrote:

I've got 1/16th Irish ancestry. No dutch. No orange socks, either.

I've got 1/4 Irish ancestry and can't stand orange.

LOL. I'm 1/4 Irish too, so I assume your meaning is political.

No. I don't like orange as a colour. We tend to get out of Holland
whenever there is a European or World Cup, until they are eliminated.

Well and wisely said. Actually I'd forgotten about the Dutch and Orange;
you've picked a strange place to live if you can't stand the colour!

--
Gardening in Lower Normandy

FOUND !!!

In the case when we last went to the North Island for my wife's graduation
ceremony when she received her BA (Hons) from the Vice Chancellor.

But we have now lost a sock which we bought in New Zealand when we were on
our World Cruise :-(

Mike



"'Mike'" wrote in message ...



"David Hill" wrote in message ...

On 04/07/2013 21:41, 'Mike' wrote:


"David Hill" wrote in message ...

Why do we call the time piece that we wear on our wrist a "Watch"?



Don't know, but just as mysterious. Where do socks go when one
disappears? I have lost a right sock. Where is it?

Mike

How do you know it's the right one?
Lo you have them labelled left and right?


http://www.nauticalia.com/uk-info/cl...ocks/6337.html

Mike

On 06/07/2013 17:36, 'Mike' wrote:
FOUND !!!

In the case when we last went to the North Island for my wife's
graduation ceremony when she received her BA (Hons) from the Vice
Chancellor.

But we have now lost a sock which we bought in New Zealand when we were
on our World Cruise :-(

MikeShould have gone to Spec savers