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28th March 2023, 14:19
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My ECDIS is working fine. All the turning points are entered accurately (but perhaps, to coin a Morcambism, not necessarily in the right order).
It will be a slow day. That's what leap seconds are for (well, it's one of the reasons).
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#8453
6th April 2023, 01:45
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Have you mist or missed the plot?
I lost it ages ago.
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If Global Warming is so prevalent why are there so many snowflakes around?
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#8455
8th April 2023, 17:01
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Lost my virginity many years ago and never reported it to the police. Under the new rules is a boy and a man the same sex and if so, why?
On a healthier note Tmax has used ships funds to buy a large number of Easter Eggs, one for everyone and two for Varley to make up for his allergy to hot cross buns. Hope mine has a crunchie in it as I always get the frigging smarties and my tongue turns green. As Tiny Tim once should have said; Happy Easter to One and All.
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#8458
9th April 2023, 02:38
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Daughter returning on AA flight on Wednesday after six years working in Chicago struck birds on take off which took out the port engine and some hydraulics. Big bang, flames, noise, much vibration and, no doubt, some consternation. Go around and fly past the tower at ~800 feet to do a 'roll by' (railway term). Landed safely (thankfully) surrounded by fire engines etc. All good except for the birds and the engine. All thanks to the AA flight crew.  Geoff
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#8459
9th April 2023, 08:44
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Happy Easter down under, I suppose its midnight and snowing in Adelaide but youse faithfully keep the traditions of the mother country. And King Charles 3 will be arriving shortly, by nuclear submarine, one supposes?
I like the odd railway term tossed into our conversations to broaden our horizons and to make us feel inadequate which, in truth, is not that difficult. Enjoy Easter and get your daughter a BIG Easter Egg.
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#8460
9th April 2023, 14:44
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Sorry everyone, back on board after a little blow-out in London (IMarEST din-dins, and 6 other days foot loose with family and friends. Schoolmate I had not seen for 54 years (since he stayed a couple of days here immediately after we left) interrupted his travels to have a pint or several at Chequers.
One night, fire alarm 0200, which mug was the only one to muster? Got it in one I bet. Anyway, after several dinners drinkies, walkies, shoppies (especially cheese) started off home on Wednesday only to have flight cancelled. Extra night at expense of Logan air taught me my choice of digs better than theirs and that cheese is better transported fridge to fridge on the day of purchase (I swear I could detect a delightful aroma, to some, when my case was finally put in the hold). Finally arrived home PM Thursday. Not quite the same trauma as YM's family - if cooking cheese or bird I find domestic gas adds fewer unpleasant flavours than does aviation paraffin. Still managed, with help arranged by telephone to put on sausage, salmon and fizz for a dozen or so on Good Friday (if one is going to burn in hell for ignoring the Lenten bit one might as well ensure one has companions). I hope everyone who remained on board GD had/are having a good time. As for the question E-S poses, I suggest the answer is that it depends on how pretty the boy is.
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#8461
11th April 2023, 08:08
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11th April 2023, 09:47
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One notes with sadness that the Noble Lord has taken to buying cheese in London, why when there is a good creamery on the Island. How do I know, you ask? Well recently the Mem and myself were in Playa Blanca and in a local "Supermercado" buying some cheap wine when we came upon the cheese counter. Imagine my surprise when a lot of the hard block cheese was IOM Creamery, you could have knocked me down with a Dairylea Triangle. I can report that it was a bloody good mid range cheese, Kerrygold should be warned.
Not everything has been contaminated by the rush to FOC.
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#8463
11th April 2023, 12:44
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The Creamery makes an excellent Vintage Cheddar and I would not buy anything similar for import.
We have some independent cheesers (often goat which I don't like). We could do soft cheese with a re-equipment of or independent creamery but present projections suggest funding would be difficult. But we are not (I am told) big enough to do blue as the present producers fear any proximity to the clouds of Penecillium Roquefortii which would threaten the non-blue production. Our cheese finds its way farther afield than the heathen bogs of Hibernia, it can be found in Canada and the USA. But we still do the flavoured and smoked cheese which, to me, is announcing to the world that that batch tasted as if it could only be improved by shoving it up a chimney or adding berries to it. Stick to the Vintage it's excellent. (The Lama's boy will dine out on that for the rest of his days, probably vegetarian curry. The BBC reported that he had licked Cantuar's eyebrows. Had he done that to those of Ramsey he'd probably have got furballs).
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#8464
17th April 2023, 07:08
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Our cheese finds its way farther afield than the heathen bogs of Hibernia, it can be found in Canada and the USA. But we still do the flavoured and smoked cheese which, to me, is announcing to the world that that batch tasted as if it could only be improved by shoving it up a chimney or adding berries to it. Stick to the Vintage it's excellent.
I agree. It is an abomination, in Dublin, that I can't buy Wensleydale without it being adulterated with cranberries or pomegranates or other such berry. Who is to blame, Mark or Spencer, I think we should be told.
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#8465
19th April 2023, 13:37
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I chatted with the manager of the creamery and he rather agrees with us on adulteration however he excused himself from the act by explaining that no organisation could refuse an order for 40 tons of Leicestershire lookalike flavoured with whateverberries just because the customer is a philistine. I also took him to town on colouring, in this case it was the whey butter (the flavour of which I prefer, and it is cheaper). He explained that they did not colour the butter but as it was made from the whey used in cheese production it had some residual colour from whatever lookalike the cheese producing it had been. The post Leicester butter is often quite orange in colour.
My Scottish two quarters expects cheddar to be orange too as it is usually coloured so with carotene. My incestuously Yorkshire half expect the unadulterated stuff (which must surely be less expensive to make if for no other reason).
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#8466
20th April 2023, 08:22
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The Noble Lord is vying with Ben Gunn as the greatest advocate of cheese.
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#8467
20th April 2023, 13:14
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How could anyone who makes an annual pilgrimage for dinner, family rendezvouses and an empty case for the filling of at Paxton and Whitfield (this year including a last hour dash across town for M'lady's* Gubeen from Neal's Yard) plead not guilty to that.
* when introduced to this cheese she tried to get me to ask for gobeen!
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#8468
25th April 2023, 05:57
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I think the time has come to tell Lord Finchley that an electrician is not an Artisan, he is a Tradesman. An Artisan is a man or woman with a beard and dirty fingernails who makes cheese from unpasteurised milk in a lean-to with a corrugated roof.
Excuse me please as I feel a certain looseness coming on.
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#8469
26th April 2023, 23:16
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27th April 2023, 14:11
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We are gods that strike down the mighty, even those of Finchley, for not employing local labour.
(We might also be a technician qualified by tested competence rather than become journeyman only by dint of surviving the many shocks a little learning would obviate. Little it is but essential it is too).
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#8471
27th April 2023, 16:07
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What is black, charred and hangs from the deck head?
E.S. Changing a light bulb  Don't shout at me Lord Varley paid me to say that 
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#8472
27th April 2023, 23:28
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When we had our house rebuilt I watched the Electrician (???) tape joints. a few shocks and no ground wires. Its a 220v system. IE: two 110v wires making 220v. I hate Electricity. I cant see it or smell it but by heck I can feel it.
Philippine lesson learned; any wire to be treated as live even when circuit breakers are off and the mains off as well there are still parts that will light up my testing screwdriver. Electricity is best left to the likes of Lord Varley who understand the stuff.
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#8473
28th April 2023, 09:55
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#2. Our Noble Lord's knowledge tops out with Ohm's Law. Kirchoff's Law's is a foreign land. As for ES changing a light bulb.........drivel, He has a Batti Walla for lamping-up. So there!
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#8474
28th April 2023, 14:26
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Anyhoo Injuneers don't lower themselves to such menial tasks, one has Minions for such things 
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#8475
28th April 2023, 16:36
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A chap doesn't have Minions any more, one has Colleagues. Every worker must be given due respect even if they are useless twats. Bowlers all round.
Bit of a hooley in London next weekend, those of us not invited, ignore above, shall have to make good use of the extended pub hours, and get pissed. The BBC tells me the fragrant Michelle is going, fair do's but what language does she speak? It's not one of the hundreds of dialects of Norn Irn.
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