Ha-ha Castro banned rum in 1965. Limited supplies of artisan vodka available for hard currency.
Air conditioning on the blink, me and Tmac off to sample the Bueno Vista Club. Hasta la Visa shipmates.

That is rather like ordering Port by the pipe - excellent!

I order by phone. Pipe and a blanket too messy for modern digital communications. Marconi to be congratulated.

I don't know about coagulated Macaroni -- sounds like something would find in the seamens' mess when coming off watch at 04:00. Mind you, a bowl of that would tide you over until the full English served at 07:00. :yawn:

ahhhhh nothing quite like a good Ulster fry in the morning or at anytime except Squeek doesn't like the mushrooms as they make him fart and gets him banished to the shaft tunnel.

Apropos this Marconi chap, is he the one who leaves the stringy bits in the Minestrone soup?

Still love Irish potato farls under the fried eggs , Waitrose do nice ones

That is Sparkie speak for getting your wires crossed.

What the …. are egg potato farts? You can move that coir mat yourself, Tmac, until I get a proper explanation - just watch out for the shaft earthing arrangement.

would that be with White pudding Tmac. Only had that once. a friend brought some over...Nice.

And we are warned not to talk about the Injun technographyitis!

TANNOY: Attention all hands, we have a stow-away aboard -- He is to report immediately to the PAX lounge to buy a "permission to come aboard" round for the entire crew. Tmac - it looks like he has an injuneering background, so suggest you could possibly appoint him as refrigeration injuneer. We haven't had one for a while, and it is imperative for the proper running of this ship that our beer be at the correct temperature for consumption, that the Dom Perignon be ice cold, and that there be plenty of ice for our gripetinis --- (Which brings up the point --- Would Varley kindly enlighten us as to the progress of the promised batch?) Also a chance that we could get a special cargo at some time which would require 'fridging. :pint:

I....haf bene tasting airfilly evr singel vat on hoorli schedoool. Iv fine remarqs log lyn abat enlflighten yer fkn zelf.

Don asq agn till aftr first watch. Sobrity 'as 'er plaice. E'n on GDII. Yoo jus koncentait on frigging idea - zounds no bad. Fizz etc. nd rocks for stuff'n tonic.

Yuk!*#@* Worst hangover I ever had, just wanted to die!

Varley?? Help, someone has taken over Varley. We have another entity on board. :shock:

Emergency, emergency! Would Rob Page please report to sick bay with all paperwork. I need to make sure that you are fit and proper for the GD II. From what I have seen so far you are not! :eek:

'Vista', knew you would lose it sooner or later ES. :very_sad:

If my last few communications have offended anybody I do apologise, one to many Hunter Valley reds tonight. If I have not offended anyone than you also have had too much of your favourite tipple. :pint: Should I apologise? Nah, don't think so.

Nightie night. :yawn:

A stowaway - on board now?

Can somebody tell me where we are and where we are heading please?

I have just woken up thanks to the Tannoy broadcast. So, first things first is our stowaway a useful addition to the crew? if he can provide cold beer and champagne then that I would say yes!

Secondly, there seems to be a lot of gardening going on - which is good as we can get fresh herbs, vegetables etc, All this is great, but can our Chef use these properly? Do we need to consider recruiting somebody? A celebrity Chef for example? I only ask!

As for the possible use of the stowaway,we need to ask Tmak as well though, as he would have to fit in as part of his Ijuneerng crew.

Right! I am on the way to the lounge to have a livener and see what is going on and discuss this further!

McC

Good to see Varley and Red17 relaxing. Just don't go past horizontal.

Kindly direct/frogmarch/drag the "stowaway" to the injuneering dept. Knock twice (respectfully) on injun room door and upon having it opened insert wallet from said stowaway through open hatch/door/whatever and then retreat to await instructions.

According to value of contents stowaway will be admitted to injuneering dept (loads of cash and cc's) sent to deckie crowd lounge (reasonable amount of cash received by injuneering) or thrown over the rail if found with no cash or cc's.:quill:

There is NO room for passengers on this ship unless they are of the pneumatic nubile and have a penchant for gnarled and somewhat shop soiled and slightly oily injuneers in which case there is space reserved for them in the shafting arrangement. :wink:

Actually is the miscreant does NOT know what luxury is an Ulster Potato FARL is as it melts on the mouth have the surly fellow flogged and tied to the Mizzen until further notice :really_mad:

well at least seperately :big_tongue:

Aye, yus... watever he said :yawn:

I answer to your first (and most important question) McC,

We are exactly right HERE, and heading over THERE.

The rest of your enquiries can be discussed at the evening gathering of the alcohol testing committee in the PX Lounge later on.

A meeting with a long and detailed agenda, some onerous tasks to work on and a dedication unparalleled in it's rigorousness.

Don't over task us. Everyone helps.

Wot? ten gom'n elp wid tis Gripe quallightly contrl exersize. Doin't all lonesomely screwin der liver.


Wot again!!! soberer now. I seem to be lying next to a wimen!

Alcohol testing Eh....good show men. cant wait to see Varleys wimin, If he lets them out of the radio shack heh heh

The stowaway is a certain Mr. Page, but he has gone into hiding, seemingly unwilling to ante up the necessary libations for full acceptance by the crew. Mr. McCloggie, perhaps you could organise a search party to check places like the chain locker, all the unused double bottom and deep tanks, all the lifeboats, the tonnage hatch, and the bonded store. If and when found, he should submit to 20 lashes with a wet noodle. :bounce:

we are running out of CO2 in the UK so have problems with beer pumping , we have dandelion and burdock or Rum though

welcome aboard Rob.

Come join the crew in the PAX lounge for drinkies on my tab.

Being a Celt myself I just love the Manx language, it's so melodic and rolls off the tongue like a gob of Prosecco phlegm.
As part of the GD2's Crew Enrichment Programme our resident Manx speaker should run a series of introductory lectures during the dog watches. He could incorporate a wine tasting segment and introduce us to the excellent vineyards on the south eastern slopes of Slieau Whallian, if the excessive tannin hasn't addled his brain.

You should really rely on the vintages from the southern slopes of Slieu Doo, ES. The delicate flavours of moist loaghtan, with a hint of raspberry and kipper. A fine draught on a warm night (as this is) and the added bonus that it won't fuck up the flavour of your hamburger.

Talking about vintages, you've gotta love the cars in Cuba. Relics from the good old days when, at a glance, you could tell the difference between make, model and year. (e.g. 1954 Ford and 1959 Chevrolet impala.) Now, in this day and age, I can only tell the difference between a silver car and a blue car, etc. :really_mad:

Slieu Doo looks like a bastardisation of the Irish Sliabh Dhu or Black Mountain. Could we make potato vodka in the steering flat and market it as Black Mountain Still, another Serang brainwave.

An excellent idea (the 'h' would make it closer to brown I gather).

These gripe fumes, I find, can steepen the old 'load/frequency curve' if one does not get a little rest from the distillery flat.

I understand we now have to reserve double bottom space as we have, I am astonished to hear, been hiring it out to stowaways. We may have to start charging for our elixirs if the deck department think of treating us like charterers.

Time Charter, Demurrage and Hague-Visby are terms long forgotten by our deck department. Ofttimes I lie in the bunk awake wondering if they are any more conversant with terms such as Mercator, Long by Chron and Pilotage? Apparently none of them went to The Boulevard, nuf said.

I will have you know I was frowned at by no less a person than Ivan D Allison. "We reserve that for our best cadets" he said, then denied me a reference. Great man of infinite perception.

You don't need a compass or a sextant or a chronometer to navigate in the Bahamas.


You need a Medium.....:hippy:

But how, pray, does one get there in the first place?

we leave that to Tom Varley. He always navigates us to the exact position.

You're going to have that Steering Flat idea OK'd by Tmac --- that is in his purvue, although he does alllow us to take certain qualified guests there when in port so that we can show them the steering gear. :hippy: :hippy: