Permission to go ashore……

In style.

Another contemporary of mine has retired. Only he did it in the style that only he can do.

….he passes through the “side-boys” down the “after-brow” and “ashore”
where he “doffs” his uniform blouse, dons a Hawaiian shirt, his wife cuts
off his uniform trousers into shorts, then he puts on some flip-flops and
grabs a mug of beer