>>>>The French Navy are running a recruitment drive, with a new motto: "To the water - it is the hour!".
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>>>>In French this is: "A l'eau - c'est l'heure!"
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>>>"To the water - it is time!"
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>>"It is the hour (to do this thing)" as in "now is the time". Anyway, that's not important. Think of how the expression is pronounced (and how it sounds in English). As a francophone you probably don't get the play on words.
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>Oh, you mean it sounds like "allo sailor". I must admit I didn't catch your originally intended obective.
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>cheers (I guess still workless?... if so, not so much 'cheers')

I'm not so down at the mo. I've been building a big allotment shed, for our new allotment, out of all the driftwood off the beach. Really solid it'll be - made from inch thick floorboards on a stalwart frame. really enjoying this (been drying the wood out for 3 weeks) but now I've got it all cut up and in kit form for assembly on the allotment.