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Old 3rd November 2024, 09:25
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The very thought of you not doing so ES gave me slight twinge - not pleasant.
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Old 4th November 2024, 07:53
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Testing 1,2; 1,2.
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Old 4th November 2024, 09:15
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Old 4th November 2024, 09:17
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Testing 1,2; 1,2.
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Old 4th November 2024, 09:42
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When I posted a quick reply it did not show up. I refreshed the page at approx. 7am , no success but lo and behold it appears at 8.17. A temporary glitch?
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Old 4th November 2024, 13:02
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grateful thanks to our technicians. I am back on site again.
I'll just nip and have a look around the ship to see whats happening.
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Old 4th November 2024, 13:09
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Hmmm everything seems to be in order. Ecdis says we ar4e making 23 knots towards the gulf of Mexico. ETA in three days.
Nothing exciting on the Radars. Iron Mike holding her steady on course for Haiti. Dont think we have been there before.
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Old 4th November 2024, 14:40
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Haiti ? Don’t they have regular ‘problems’ natural and man made?
Many years since my major incident and medical trauma training, I suppose it will all came back to me, probably just a bit out of date.
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Old 4th November 2024, 23:47
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Hmmm everything seems to be in order. Ecdis says we ar4e making 23 knots towards the gulf of Mexico. ETA in three days.
Nothing exciting on the Radars. Iron Mike holding her steady on course for Haiti. Dont think we have been there before.
Is it worth asking if we`ve got the speed to get through the Dominican Republic to get to Haiti ?
I mean, I know the sharp end is pointy, but wouldn`t it be wiser to follow an icebreaker ? (Not a double rum & coke.)
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Old 5th November 2024, 10:09
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A land beset by problems none of which will be lightened by our arrival. We must, as diplomatically as possible, make our excuses and hightail it out of the Caribbean.
Brazil?
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Old 5th November 2024, 12:00
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Brazil, That where they make ladies under garments?
OK so, fuel and stores then we head out for Bra zil.
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Old 5th November 2024, 14:42
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To quote from Charley’s Aunt:
‘Brazil, where the nuts come from’
Well, the author was a Liverpudlian….
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And just as I finished my voodoo doll of the Chequer's landlord. Will it still work if we don't go there?
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After all the excitement of the US Presidential Election and the Melbourne Cup I sat down to watch a nice little programme I had taped, Abandoned Railways From Above. It was the line from Carlisle to Edinburgh through the Borders. A lot of time was spent at a disused WW1 explosives factory where they made cordite. To boost production they brought in an Australian chemist Cyril Callister, a capital chap who worked wonders.
On his return home in the 1920's he formulated Vegemite, yes your eyes are not deceiving you, and processed cheese, triangles one presumes. The Memsahib commented that putting Vegemite or Dairylea in the bombs instead of cordite would have shortened the war by 3 to 4 years.
Put the kettle on, hen.
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Old 8th November 2024, 08:36
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Thanks ES - another of the many things that I did not know!
I am glad that your Memsahib recognises the value of Vegemite even if you don't.
Here is a small gift for her.
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great stuff I have 4 jars in the cupboard.
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Old 11th November 2024, 03:37
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Aye up! we are slowing down. ES must be applying the brakes. Looking over the sharp end I see Land. No Idea what it is though. Hope its somewhere nice so we can all have some R&R. A nice place worthy of Gentlemen such as ourselfs would be nice.
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Old 11th November 2024, 09:50
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eyup Billy, looks like an Icelandic sand bank to me. could be cod and chips for tea.
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Old 11th November 2024, 11:48
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Haddock and Chips for me Please. (best I ever ate was in Lowestoft, not far from the Station).
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Lowestoft...".wherever that is"...Iam catching cod off Hornsea beach at high tide usind lugworm for bait, but they are very small so i am throwing them back, as the winter sets in there will be larger cod around big enough for my tea. we just need some bid frosts to bring them in.
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Old 12th November 2024, 13:45
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It appears we are packing grub for a (please hear this in the voice of Lady Bracknell) pic-a-nic.

In case I find the antipodean attempt to en-larder brewery effluviant finds me a hater, may I bring some Patum Peperium and the wherewithal to make hot buttered toast in the field?

I disguised myself as one entitled to this delight to shop at Fortnum's whilst on my recent leave and have returned with a small stock. Some, much like with Vegemite, may liken this to the horny lugworm snack with which Rusty seems to season his fish supper but some may find it, like I do, addictive.

Just as long as it is not a Barbeque. I abhor raw inside burned outside sausages and, if I did want to eat ant droppings, leaf mould and mixed garden detritus sprinkled on a bun with something charred over a fire filling the air with the distinct odour cylinder oil contained in half an oil drum, I'd have bought those from Fortnum's too.
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Old 12th November 2024, 14:11
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Eyup Varley as you were born before sausages were invented i will take your advice and cook mine in a frying pan inside my kitchen using co-op lard, yum yum.
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Old 12th November 2024, 14:52
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Patum Peperium? If indeed we are headed to antipodean climes then maybe we should seek out a supply of Peck's Ancovette Paste to spread upon one’s burnt bread.
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Old 12th November 2024, 16:29
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I am suspicious. I did not see Peck's products on the shelves of Fortnum's and I dare not go again soon incase I am unmasked in my disguise as a gentleman.

Before I try it I would need assurance that it was not some ordinary fish paste counterfeited to undermine Patum or, indeed, a potion made to uncloak Newton's 'rude mechanicals' when abroad amongst their betters.

(The romans knew of sausage or botulus and, indeed, of botulism. Presumably because they, too, had a class that indulged in charcoal encased tubes of raw offal warmed over a bonfire).
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Old 12th November 2024, 17:56
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Ah, further enquiues reveal that I am a tad late with the news. Apparently Peck's - Since 1891, but now owned by a company called Pioneer foods, discontinued production about two years ago.
So, belay that suggestion and stick with what you know.
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