The Chocolate Frog Sailors: Recent Episodes
William Pawley
Learning to grow-up on the fly a long way from home: With a passion for the navy, young and naive 16 year old Barney joins his first ship direct from training and is thrown headlong into a man's man world, foolishly bye-passing adolescence in his hunger to be one of the boys. Funny: rude: crude: innocent: loving: full of pathos for those growing up and also the ones who have grown up...
The night life in Kagoshima isn't quite what anybody expected. A real Japanese culture shock for all.
A weeks leave in Hong Kong with Aunty Maud and Uncle Jinsky. How the other side live and what it can bring.
Deigo Lankowi gives them an idealic background for a banyan of banyans. The naked breasts come into view.
Barney gets his first taste of business but he has no idea what he is learning and neither do Customs and Excise.
"Don't bother going ashore in Cochin" the captain advised - there is nothing to do - so save your money for Hong Kong. Good advice or bad?
A football match that ends in unusual circumstances of language! Barney learns the meaning of regional accents.
The Ugly Board starts to be created and the hardy tars prepare to enter the eye of the storm.
A New Year's Night never ever to forget. Barney now knows what emotional hurt really means.
Annie's Bar in Sembawang Village takes to the New Zealand rugby field and not many tries are scored!
An unusual postal delivery "You All!" A pantomime at sea for Christmas sets the mess a glowing with nostalgia.
Barney feeds the gulls that follow Conway in her wake. Mombasa gives the first glimmer of naked breast
At long last Conway heads for the Far East and naked breast. First stop The med, Gib and Malta.
Dodo finds himself in trouble on top of the funnel. Peppy has his own arse kicked by a future father-in-law.
The journey of the rum as it travels from the barrel in the Spirt Room to the tot glass, every day to every man entitled. A story worth telling, except to the men not entitled. Barney was not entitled, unfortunately.
A funny way to learn about how the navy handles a nuclear attack. The fate-full Commissioning Ceremony and Cocktail party.
Meeting the rest of the new crew. His first run ashore and an eye opening intro to his fellow messmates.
Barney has a rude awakening when joining his first ship: He is expecting to sail the next day to far off distant lands but finds the ship still in build with a skeleton crew and a lot of learning to do.