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Glyn Morgan Cadet 2245
Glyn Sailed on the following ships as a Cadet
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William Glyndwr Morgan - Ship's Captain.
I am the sum of my experiences, plus lots of genes!

Then ....
  • Born in Boksburg in the old Transvaal on 9th July 1945. Can't get more South African than that!
  • Went to school in Newcastle, Natal. My father was a mechanical engineer working on the Amcor blast furnaces, my mother taught at junior school and was a member of the Black Sash, not too popular. I played 2nd team rugby, swam for the school and sailed on the local dam. Did hunting, shooting, fishing type of things. Matriculated in 1963 without much distinction. The Army did not want me.
  • Attended the General Botha Nautical Academy at Gordon's Bay in 1964. Picked up Second Prize for Seamanship and the Character Prize, a bit of a surprise that one!
  • Went to sea with Safmarine for some years on various cargo ships, reefers and an oil tanker. Saw a lot of ports in Europe, the USA, the Far East and some other places. That was pure adventure until I sailed with some real alkies and the adventure ran out.
  • Decided to change the world and do Town and Regional Planning at Wits University. Left after two years with lots of friends, experience in mountain climbing, dinghy sailing. Had fun but they wouldn't give me a degree. The world did not change.
  • Joined Barlows and sold Caterpillar Tractors in the Northern Transvaal and Swaziland. Now that is fun, made some money and saw a lot of our beautiful country but decided that I am not one of those salesmen guys! Ever seen the play "Death of a Salesman"?
  • Did some time sailing a Unicorn coaster between Durban and Cape Town.
  • Worked in a yacht shop in Cape Town called Wilbur, Ellis Co. for about three years. Did a lot of sailing. Met my wife, got married.
  • Working in a yacht shop is not very financially rewarding for a married man, so I rejoined Safmarine and was with them until their big break-up some years ago. Their bulk carriers were sold to a Greek company and I went with them.
Now ....
  • I live in Cape Town with my wife. We have two great daughters, both out of the house.
  • Fairly fit, swim ok, canoe on the Orange River with my wife, walk in the mountains with friends. Healthy, HIV negative, medium height, blue eyes, some hair.
  • Sociable, like talking to people with interesting backgrounds. Not too political but not ignorant in that department. Good general knowledge, musically dumb.
  • I believe that I have a sense of humour, much needed at sea lately. Check on it here "Humour".
  • I drive a Toyota Condor van. Don't drink too much, don't smoke, DO NOT DO DRUGS.
  • Presently Master of Cape Size bulk carriers trading world-wide. Most of the crew I sail with are Ukrainians. Looking forward to doing some traveling to far off places, meeting new friends and checking in on old ones.

    I am Glyn Morgan, Ship's Captain, just an ordinary guy.
    PS: The above blurb got me on to the Survivor Panama TV show short list!

A Letter to the Editor

Dear Captain Glyn Morgan

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slow down in the overall performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriends 1.0 thru 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but installed undesirable programs such as Sport 5.0 and Fishing 3.0. And now Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and House Cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?
Sandra Bullock

The Editor's Reply

Dear Sandra

First keep in mind; Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Try entering the command C:\I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME and download Tears 6.2 to install Guilt 3.0. If all works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will create snoringloudly.wav files.

Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 or reinstall another Boyfriend program. These are not supported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have a limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider additional software to improve memory and performance. I personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 6.9 but Smile 1.01 may be the best.

Good luck!!!!
Glyn
How to Bag One Hundred Guinea Fowl in One Night!

When I was a kid in Newcastle, Natal, South Africa, we used to supply the local butcher with his stock of Guinea Fowl. Kids in rural South Africa do a lot of hunting/shooting/fishing type things. Guinea fowl are sort of African wild chickens with black feathers with white spots and a blue head topped with a red comb. They make good eating if you like game-bird type taste. Normally they are bagged using a shotgun but eating them can be a bit of a mission, spitting the shot out. I had a 410 shotgun, a Savage 33 bolt action with a five cartridge magazine. So what we did was this....

We would soak a packet (250 grams) of raisins in water overnight, they got all plump and round. The next morning we'd cut a few handfuls of hair from the mane of my kid brother's horse. These are stiff, long, springy hairs, the kind you grab when the nag is frisky. They would be wound around a pin and pushed into the middle of a plump raisin. A hundred or more raisins would be stuffed with a coiled up piece of horse-hair.

The guinea fowl or tarentaal, as they are known to the Afrikaners, eat during the day, they peck at any seed or seedling they see and are a bit of a pest for the maize farmers. In the late afternoon they make their way to their favorite tree and go to roost for the night at about sunset. This is their downfall!

The plan was to creep up to their tree and scatter the hair-filled raisins under the guinea fowls roost before sunset. They would saunter up to the raisins, gobble them up and then fly into the tree for the night, safe from jackals and other hungry beasts. At around eight that evening they would start to fall out of the tree, like a local hail storm! Yes, they would literally fall out of the tree! By their hundreds, or maybe dozens at least. When the plopping of the guinea fowl stopped it was time to fill our bags (maize sack, 72lb) with fresh dead birds! That would be a month's supply for the butcher.

You see, what happened was this. The birds would eat the raisins and digest them. As you know it takes about two hours to digest a raisin. When the skin of the raisin was digested the horse-hair would spring straight out of it's coil and the bird would die of fright! Heart attack. We made a fortune!
There is more but will only be publish if a clear demand from the other 19 Cadets in unanimous.
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