Your cheque is in the post.

Fragrant??? I assume you are suffering for a severe deficiency in the olfactory region, then again I've never had any desire to get that close for a sniff :cloud:

It is quite astonishing how clearly she speaks with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek. She actually is fluent in two languages, rubbish and gibberish although the gibberish has improved since she stopped speaking at 100 MPH :chuckle:

We crew type persons will be better off avoiding the hoolie even though we have feckin' paid for it :really_mad: I will break the habit of a lifetime and stand the open bar for one and all. :pint:

Dunlop, Michelin or Pirelli I presume :chuckle::chuckle:

Steward! a case of vintage port and a case of black bush to the crew Bar, My donation towards Tmacs fine gesture. we will have a hoolie of our own aboard here.

'... She actually is fluent in two languages, rubbish and gibberish although the gibberish has improved since she stopped speaking at 100 MPH ... '

She reads the news in Melbourne.:very_sad:

The news in Melbourne today:-

Eastern Melbourne is on fire,
Western Melbourne is flooded,
Well known photographer bitten by snake,
Snake expected to recover,
Outback overrun with film crews and opal diggers,
And finally the weather; there will be more of it tomorrow.

'.... Well known photographer bitten by snake,
Snake expected to recover ....'

I put a tourniquet round its neck as snakes are a protected species here; unlike cyclists and photographers.

Is that bloody Portillo here AGAIN! :wave::rolleyes:

Por-tea-yo and his Bradshaw, in UK and Ireland, have shown the railways in a good light. Lets give him a well done.

Portillo as Minister of Defence........ the Jury is out.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear the Big Day is almost upon us and we have not yet the fixin's for our buffet. Tmax is making Carnation Chicken, he has the warrant, but Lord Laxey, no warrant, has used all the Pataks Madras curry powder in his Empire Biryani. But not to worry, I've called a meeting in the Bar for 16 hundred hours and we will sort it all out over a few Black Bush and soda. Roll on Saturday.

Hot and cold running sausages with Bloody Mary on tap at the outset. King's Kedgeree towards 1100 Z. Smoked Salmon sandwiches as a bourrer bouche as the day rumbles to a close. Fizz, of course, to toast TMs (Henners, not the froggie muck) at every opportunity.

What's all this about ES taking to the law?

I hadn't though of Korma for the King, I'll just use a Naga in the Kedgeree. Not going the Quiche for the Queen route I am aiming at finger food and fear that would end up as too much on the carpet food. No idea who's going to come but Ramsey, Port Erin, Onchan, Peel and Douglas are all represented so far.

The last time i was in the I.O.M. at a do was in the early 60s in a theatre in Douglas my mum took me to see Donald Peers we were made to sing, by a babbling brook, and then we had to sing gillygillyhosandpheppercatsanellaboganbythesea. All in all a shite night, rgds rustytrawler

Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea ?

That was Max Bygraves - he lived along the road in Bournemouth.

It may of been Max, but peers sang it on the I.O.M, he had thewords on a roll down sheet and we sang with gusto he even threw us bags of smiths crisps

If youse guys don't get the finger out I'll be using Naga or Trinidad Scorpion to jizz youse up.
07.00 and the Finnan Haddie still in its polystyrene overcoat.

BTW is Kedgree still acceptable in these woke times?

A sh1te night indeed, all you were missing was Reg Varney and Arthur Askey.

Ibet you remember old mother riley, my mum told me that i saw him when i was little but i don't recall. he married a dub called kitty. what a night that must of been....not

Never met the Lady but google tells me, "Old Mother Riley is an Irish washerwoman and charwoman character, his wife Kitty McShane played Old Mother Riley's daughter, Kitty. It was essentially a drag act but also a double act".
This would be the height of depravity in catholic Ireland of the 40 and 50's, obnoxious but not so much as The Krankies (no Nicola jokes please).

Arthur lucan, played Riley and was from Hull and that is where i saw him. ISthat the lipstick on a pig Nicola?

Arthur Lucan (Arthur Towle) was born at Sibsey, near Boston, and moved to Boston when he was five. He died, in Hull in 1954, in the wings at the Tivoli theatre before the beginning of the performance.

Kedgeree is PI?

(Heavy eating expected guest did not turn up. Other 10 could not make up for his absence so a meal or two in the freezer - don't know how that will turn out).

What time do you want me? I'll bring a bottle and my own cutlery :pint::pint:

Will I get by with;
2 x plates enamel, knife fork spoon and mug ?

For this occasion (which followed a proper sit-down Beef Nelson for 8 the previous Saturday) I was lazing. There were paper plates and wooden forks (there were also wooden knives but these are useless). Turn up when you like - you'll just have to wait for the stuff to defrost before we test it to see if it developed salmonella before it got to the freezer - sorry I meant '...you test it...'

2 plates? This isn't a workhouse you know.

Damned trousers, damned washing machine. Trousers managed to retain my wallet Thursday night and washing machine accepted them regardless. Have hopes that a good dubbinning will restore shocked wallet and old person's pass. Fortunately bank card still operational - must be IPx7.

My mobile had more sense and escaped before immersion, doubt dubbin would have done anything to restore that.

That can be a problem when 3x extra large are involved, does I.O.M. have plastic money?