Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page116 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n If people want butter, they buy it on the day that they need it, because ordinary homes have limited access to electricity and nobody has fridges. Hence Saturday is cake day. The traders use massive zeers to keep their butter cool, and there\u2019s even a market stall which will happily sell shoppers a smaller zeer for use at home. The ancient Middle Eastern device will keep things cool for several hours, long enough to have all the cooking under control for the weekend.<\/p>\n In spite of her initial reluctance, SilverCloud doesn\u2019t have a lot of choice. It\u2019s MaxChaos or nothing! Good, able bodied seamen are in short supply and her crew is already operating at a skeleton level. Finding trustworthy support staff at the last minute is never easy. Especially on a Saturday.<\/p>\n Cargo ships are not pleasant places to live and work, so finding any staff for the merchant navy isn\u2019t easy. The Garrison always has the best sailors, and it has the best galley staff. That\u2019s because the pay is better. The Garrison pays even when there\u2019s no active duty.<\/p>\n The merchant navy is different. Officers may have a full time salary, but everybody else is paid only for the work that they do.<\/p>\n And right now, at short notice, MaxChaos is the only person available for the week long trip calling at Amlwch, Conwy and Rhuddlan. He can turn his hand to anything, and he claims that he can cook. The crew is little more than a dozen people, that\u2019s all, so how hard can it be?<\/p>\n He\u2019ll miss \u201cOpenMike Night\u201d this evening, but that\u2019s a minor issue when confronted with the prospect of one week\u2019s paid work!<\/p>\n On Saturday evenings Mr Rafone hosts \u201cOpenMike Night\u201d in the Great Hall at the Noble Coliseum. He\u2019s a volunteer who\u2019s there regularly on Saturdays helping out generally, helping orphaned children with their school work, helping them with some fun stuff, and he\u2019s somebody they can just talk to confidentially if they want to. In the absence of cinemas, and other old fashioned social entertainment \u201cOpenMike Night\u201d is the city\u2019s biggest multi purpose event, a variety show, with<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page116 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page116 \u2013 Next If people want butter, they buy it on the day that they need it, because ordinary homes have limited access to electricity and nobody has fridges. Hence Saturday is cake day. The traders use massive zeers to keep their butter cool, and there\u2019s even a market stall which will … Continue reading “Chapter 15 A Barrel of Laughs116”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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