Like the IEE (now IET). Embrace those associated, even loosely, or wither (not a reference to our successful and just moved-on CEO).

I asked her "do you like cocktails"? she said "I dont know, tell me one"

My friends from The Fladgate Partnership, Niepoort, Symington Family Estates, Alves de Sousa and Quinta do Noval will be at a small reception in my suite at 16.00. Come along but don't bring your BF as he rather disgraced us all the last time with his slurping and spitting at the rosie. Quite uncalled for.

Jesus Billy, Officers and Crew have abandoned ship, and not for the first time. I'll row over to GD 1 and press gang them back. Give me 25 silver shillings and we will be crewed-up to sail on the evening tide.

Just dozing in our hammocks waiting for the return of sanity.

No boyfriend of mine would waste good alcohol. It was because your still lit stogie made him think it was on fire. You're lucky, if it had been my 'house' he'd've have pissed it out.

Why are we waiting for this sanity chap? If it wasn't for keeping the gin cool it wouldn't be worth the bunkers to keep the lights on waiting for him. Looking over the anchorage I'd say GD1 looks dead ship, if not abandoned - Not sure it'd be worth going back to her. I know for sure there's nothing left in the bond or the Gripetanks.

Just had a message from the Agent. we are to make for MontysVideo and await orders.
Mr varley could you be so kind as to radio ahead and order full stores, provisions and libational liquids please. Chief steward will give you a list.
Skipper! can you please give me an ETA for MontyeVideo please and let Mr Varley know.
Cut outs! please wind in the hook thingy!
Looking at this map gismo we have to go WSW.
Farmer John! can you come up top and aim us in the right direction please. I have alredy rang down standby and the hook thingys almost up.

Why, in this age, are we still using MontysVideo? When I joined I was led to believe that the GD was equipped with everything from coal burning T3 steam to nuclear.
Surely there is better material available direct on the internet or does MontysVideo cater for special needs not generally available?
Just curious in case I am missing out on something as a result of my sheltered upbringing. Too late to catch up now I fear.

Agents request YM. Guess he wants us on standby for a possible job. No idea what it is though.

I'm a big admirer of Monty, he's from Norn Irn, and if he wants a video he can have one. Not everyone needs DVD or Blue Thingy.
Once we transit the Suez we have time to drop the Jolly Boat and have a wee Jolly to EL Alemain and may have a minutes silence. A nice gesture.

Skippy-Mundrabilla is at the coal shovelling end of the spectrum and that is to be welcomed. Down below we have too many technicians and boffins, what I want is a blue chip Stoker that I can have a drop of tea and a chat with while BB and team frig about on the bridge.
(Must gen-up on fire tube boilers)

Thanks ES.
Here, you hold the shovel while I make the tea.
About 15 each side, a couple in the middle while I'm gone should do it but not too much as Tmac counts the lumps - both coal and sugar.
We don't want smuts on the deckies dress uniforms or dirty water out of the safety valves either.

I'll see if the lad can remember his Morse (I only do the techy stuff these days) but the main Tx seems difficult to tune up (and the Pennant to which it's linked is having a semi-permanent period of silence too). I've looked into the gubinings and think there is a lot of its little blue chips missing.

I'll have to try the one with the little bottles that light up but that shovel dangling from the aerial is going to make tuning it a bitch. Still, a good test for the boy. Must learn, not all beer and skittles!

Sod it! who has switched my junior for a deck gadget? He's trying to tune the bottle thing by pointing it backwards through the sun-roof and says he won't turn-to proper until a quarter to noon. Says it won't work until, anyway, until then and goes on to tell my the radio room clock is wrong!

Relax YM, Tmax isn't great at the oul counting. One, Two and Many is his limit. And we still wonder about H&W. Will it float? Will it Move? And is it the right colour?

Relax YM, Tmax isn't great at the oul counting. One, Two and Many is his limit. And we still wonder about H&W. Will it float? Will it Move? And is it the right colour?

aye the Titanic had 3 props instead of 4 so you could be right ES.

You could be right ES.................
Of course I'm right. And I'm right because I know a man who helped design and build the Titanic.
He oiled and greased the slide rules every morning and dusted the abacuses with powdered graphite
He also carried out the duties of thr Drawing Office Nipper. He ran messages for the Bowler Hats and went to the shop aka The Shap for filled sodas and News Letters.

When I was a lad I served a term
As office boy to an Shipbuilding firm.
I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,
And I polished up the handle of the big front door.
I polished up that handle so carefully
That now I am the Ruler of the Merchant Navy!

SPOOKY !!! how in the hell did ES know I went up the Power Station Yard to the Ulster Manure Company for the dipped soda, sausage and egg every morning for the crew. After that I got to run to jacks the bookies with the daily bets. Little wonder I learned natin' aboot injuneering in harland and Bluff. Mind you they were happy days when apprentices knew their place and did NOT interrupt or question the journeyman.:eek::eek:

Sorry lads to have been a tad quiet of late, bit of trouble that needed sorting in the injun room but after a short basin trial we should be fit to go unless the elastic round the driven thingamabob snaps again then we are all in the brown stuff as since sister Eleff departed we have had a chronic shortage of knicker elastic. :yawn:

Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore the original. If you can find the video of Frankie Howard as Sir Joseph worth a look.
Alan

Stewards!. Lay up for a party on the pool deck.see to it theres a cake in the shape of a large shifter.
Its Tmac's Birthday.
could be a great evening up there, no rain, not too warm, and cold Guinness on tap. a case of Black Bush for the Auld hand from me if you please.

The Royal Navy are aghast at the thought of Francis Alick Howard becoming First Lord but grateful he can't become First Sea Lord.
More suited to the Greek Navy.

Eyes in the boat, ES.

Just because it's his birthday doesn't mean he shifted her, I believe she is rather choosy, and this speaks well of her. A classy tart.
I don't know what age he is but the heat off the candles set the sprinklers off and flooded the Smoke Room. We have a 15 degree list but the Black Bush has caused us to dismiss it, a North Antrim phenomena.

For T's a jolly good fellow, For T's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us.

And so say all of us.......

Why can't I stand up?

Well, bolt mi'busbars! There's red stuff spilling from the port port tank ullaging port we obviously need some starboard starboarding of some sort. Look at the waste, the waste.

3/E change the Fonseca suction to the Port Tk. Jaldi. Rapidamente, como um bom homem.
A good lunchtime session will bring us upright or even give us a slight Stbd list. Problema resolvido.

Good man. Unporting port on the port tank would be equally good providing we can keep up the consumption.

(Two-oh, old man, is there a flag missing from the locker? I was looking for the spare IoM and it seems to be missing).

Missing indeed.
Perhaps someone ate it.

I hope it's not getting all smutty. I have never seen such a heavily black economic haze around the halyards. Can't see the radars for soot, almost feel guilty about sending the boy up there. Mimco won't want him in the saloon looking like a pickaninny.

Thanks for the birthday wishes mates, sorry I missed the party in the salon but these things happen. Anyhoo I managed to staunch the oil leak with a bit of cloth I found beside the fog locker. Funny thing it was, Red with some sort of wheel made of legs on it.

Just because I have white cushion covers with two broad red stripes does not mean that you should jump to conclusions. A plastico ran them up for me from material that the boy scavenged from somewhere. From the smell I assumed he'd found them in the potato locker.

Seat covers is it !!!!! :(:( Us poor injuneers don't have seats or the chance to park our arses on one even if we had, seat covers indeed......bah humbug :really_mad::really_mad:

One wonders if said cushion's c/w fancy covers are on his sofa or settee?

One needs a hobby when making sure the boy can do his dits and dahs. I like upholstery. Don't tell me you don't do gov'mnt jobs as well. I've seen the little model locomotive you hide in the switchboard cubicle when you aren't wasting the company's time (and silver solder) on it. Wait until I rack the breaker back-in then we'll see who does the sticky sweeties.

Obviously a 'flag of convenience' ...... :wave:

Wheels made of legs eh ....Hmmmm. Now if we had some of those fitted we could get around at low tide.we could walk her up the beach instead of anchoring off. Just a thought...I'll get me coat.

That propulsor is the intellectual property of the Ministry of Manx Maritime Motivation. But, for a small fee, I am sure a licence can be arranged.

(Some of us take a dim view of ignoring flag etiquette. By the state of some that you see worn around, fit only for signalling distress or surrender, that is not a universal consideration!)

They adorn both my day-bed afloat and several chaises longues at 'The Towers' (but are only 'out' if no ladies hailing from EOH are visiting, toujours la politesse!).

Indeed and correct YM. I've re-registered the Memsahib and myself in the IOM. Not a thing one does easily but my MNOPF pension is now so big that the family accountant advised me to find a dodgy bank to hide it in. And where better than crooked Mona, a Spiv on every street corner, similar to Threadneedle Street but a wee bit seedier.
A grubby decision indeed but vwhat can a retired, fixed income family do to keep their head above water.

If you intend to stay in EOH and stash your plumbgotten gains here then that is something that would suggest you are both sailing closer to the wind than honest punter and may well see you canvas carried away. If you were to up sticks and bring them with you then you would find a tax regime as well enforced as your own with respect to its collection but one more circumspect when it comes to disposal. Or you would have done pre CV19.

Honest Punter?
In Mona?
I rather think not.