Hints and tips:
...It’s an ideal which is palpable at the Burgh Island Hotel, the eccentric, Art Deco retreat on a tiny island off the south Devon coast, but one slightly stymied by a strange transplantation of the poop deck...
...At 11pm, Ensall himself took to the decks, in a Nasa orange space suit. The moves on the dance floor were an eclectic mix of disco staples and ceilidh steps....
...The extra jokes would be welcome if they were all funny (the tone varies wildly — try the one about “the poop deck”) and the visual gags never pause for breath....
...caravels, surviving waterspouts and tempests only to run aground at the place they called “Belen”, the Admiral and his boy reduced to surviving on the wrecked platform of planks that had once been the poop-deck...
...Venture capital money is seemingly pouring into any start-up that can sprinkle the magic acronym AI over its pitch deck....
...It’s Thursday morning and I’m sitting (or lying) on a wooden swimming pool deck with a backdrop of towering coniferous trees, a cloudless sky and jagged peaks of the German Alps....
...And then suddenly up popped my former adversary from the poop deck. I sighed a little harshly. What did he want? “You’ve no idea how to get home, have you?” he said. “Oh, we’ll be fine!” I lied....
...In 1416 a Venetian commander, Pietro Loredan, wrote matter-of-factly that he had captured a Greek rebel, already badly wounded: “I had the honour to hack him to pieces on my own poop deck.”...
...After Snoop Dogg, in Nelsonian regalia, delivers his peroration from a video poop deck, the pensive dub of “Last Living Souls” creates a tsunami of anticipation....
...With dusk gathering, McAllister emerges on to the poop, grinning. “It’s like notes in a song,” he says. “You put it all together so it fits beautifully.” … The ride downriver is far quicker....
...The Famous Five giggled at references to a “poop deck” and marvelled that they had video cameras in those days....
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