[Varley]

More Burn's than Hogmanay.

(I'm glad it's not just me with other stocks. I did not hear a verdict on the soup yet although M'Lady was round looking for mustard seed last evening being in the middle of curry making. There is a hint that she will entertain with it. My hint was more one of a plea not to be left out!)

Uncle Bruv was the one. Always a good trencherman he would keep the family waiting until seconds or thirds had been meticulously chewed with false teeth. On one of his last he whipped through the meal faster than any of us. My brother, never backward in the forwarding department, asked him how come. In a voice clearly affected by missing the denture (he had had them all out at 21 as was the fashion) "After many years I've found I can eat much better with just my gums".

Genoa and Martini? We seem to be navigating closer and closer to the Irish visitors, Creme de Menthe and il Papa on a shouldered chair. Doesn't that show on the ECDIS as a joke to be avoided on account of it being an ancient monument?