No RT, for that passage it'll have to be Vindaloo not Vicks.

Merry, merry everyone I'll be feeding the waifs and strays again on the day but will keep an eye on the electrical workshop to sign off on work we have put their way. I gather the yard are offering renewable electrickery down the shore supply - I gather that's akin to it being vegetarian - sprouts? I suppose that's why some utilities also supply gas. I hope they have got the right option I don't think the switchboard has anything that reads in BThU.

How many sprouts did you pick Varley? and you have not told me if Titty will be about on Christmas morning, she may need a hand with her stocking. Dont count on shore electrick the lads are off to Scunthorpe. Itold you not to come to Hull we will be better of b&b in Whitby.

We haven't been successful with sprouts in the garden for a year or two and we no longer try (at least that makes more room for the broad beans). I do love them though and from the moment they hit the shops they go in my shopping every week. I haven't had one since Friday (Saturday, Cauliflower Cheese and last night, pasta - didn't think sprouts would work with either).

(Well, I am sure they would work, bowel-wise just not complimentary taste-wise).

My house is out of bounds. Sore throat last night two merry red lines this morning.

That has probably buggered the two waifs and strays dinners I was doing 23rd and 25th but we'll have to wait and see.

Now I am waiting for the third (When sorrows come, they come not as single spies but in battalions). The second came when I turned on the dining room lights. Big bang and suspect the terminals involved are terminal. Same circuit as telly and telly stuff so lounge strewn with extension leads.

" so lounge strewn with extension leads." Same-Same Wireless Shack on GNUB.

Tannoy: We are alongside in dry dock. Shore supply is on and fresh water connected.
A mini bus will be by the gangway for those who wish to go home for xmas. I will remain aboard as usual, (except for maybe a pub visit for grub.). Merry Christmas to you all.

Dinner number 1 cancelled - still showing two bright red lines. Only sign of improvement is in colour of the proto-boggey-slime which has reverted to a less vivid green.

Still holding out for the main event, dining room now lit by boudoir lamps (lent by lady with boudoir) and yet more wandering leads.

(And I still resemble that remark E-S, GNUB all done proper by MIMCO, except main RX which for some reason R408 but even Redifon plumbed their stuff 'in'. Discretion leads me to forget the Ramarc radars).

Well they must have worked, we never hit anything (big ) or run aground.

ran aground.

Eyup ES Nollaig Shona, Ihave a tip for you stick your wages on Bottle of smoke it will win at 25/1 my gambling days are done.

You are forgetting the seawall at Zeebrugge.

Wishing each and every one of you all the best for a very Happy Christmas and a successful New Year and NO I'm not nissed as a Pewt I really mean it quite sincerely. I know ES has nominated me for membership of the GOB* (grumpy old bastard) club, that's fine with me all Chief's as naturally GOB's.

Best Wishes for Christmas and 2024 to you, Tmac, and all those spending Christmas aboard the GD.

Welcome to the GOB club where I am a foundation member.:bad_mad:

Dare I suggest that you nominate ES to the SOB (silly old bastard) club where I am also a member. I am sure that he is well qualified for acceptance but even so we should all try and restrain some of his antics next year.

Pity about Christmas lunch - you cannot cook stuff on a shovel or a pricker with oil firing.:egg:

Anyway, Best Wishes to all on SH (the friendly site) where even a landlubber has been made welcome!:wave:

I am a member of the OLD GIT CLUB .

As i have always owned Motorbikes since a teen [ still have my BSA ]
my motorbike mates call me Old Git .

All the best .

Tony

Ditto, oh happy people.

(Surprised I haven't run in to any of you in the member's bar).

The Noble Lord is becoming rather pernickety, stand back and take in the wider view.

Seawall; What Seawall?

Oh you may have done but as you are suffering from the two red lines I would have been in full body and head covering PPE, drinking my gin through a sterilised straw.

Anyway regarding the 'season', as a devout heathen my celebrations were a couple of days ago.
I just adopt the Japanese approach - If the festival involves a party then I'll join in with anyone's religion.

Indeed, here in Norn Irn we don't care what religion anyone is as long as they are not catholic. We're widely regarded as being broadminded and nearly in favour of LGBTQ++, The dirty articles.

Merry Christmas, etc, with all the trimmings, to all on SH and SN.

Probably the wrong Forum, sorry, but I'm having withdrawal symptoms because Kelpie has posted few pictures of the East Antrim coast recently. Ought we blame Brexit?

Why not it will probably turn out to be. What do you mean by pernickety? As I paid off a month short of my qualifying seatime I saw the stove-in forecastle - neatly opened up like a Fray-Bentos corned beef tin, albeit a bloody enormous one. Starboard side I think but that is less well remembered.

I too am a devout heathen so I started with Diwali and have continued through Hanukkah and don't intend stopping until 12th night. I usually skip Ramadan although that is probably very good for the liver if not for the spread of verruca.

I'm not quite as brave as some on this site; I am an A-la-Carte Christian, a sort of Third Party Fire and Theft guy. But rather relieved that the Carols at Kings and Midnight Mass etc is over and we can relax and watch the Gee-Gees run in the King George. All the time hoping the tummy is ready for turkey and stuffing pieces. Isn't life just Grand.

'.. an A-la-Carte Christian, a sort of Third Party Fire and Theft guy ...'

What a brilliant description. I think that it would cover a great number of people.

Myself and my Mother are Cornish born [ Newquay ] so must be Celts .
My Dad was French [Bordeaux born ] so a Celt also .
Does that make us Heathens .

Tony

Not at all. It just means you have a genetic disposition to have garlic in your pasties (with the outside risk you call them oggies en croute).