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Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:04 am

Capt what on earth was that thing on your plate? Looks like half a dead animal.

Actually a combo of 3 dead beasts sah. I wonder if anyone here can identify 'em. Entire dish was yummy and the boney remains chewed on for last night's dinner. Same with the remaining spuds.

11am here and all's well. Coolish 25C but the highish RH helps in keeping it tolerable. Brekky was a bowl of oats and blueberries and fresh orange juice. Lunch will be a small pile of salad. Dinner most likely the same. Seems I gained a kilo when the outlaws were here.

Moonshine time!

ricardian wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:40 pm

I was stationed at RAF Northolt 1964-65 in between tours at Sharjah & Akrotiri. I worked shifts in MOD Main Building and had a season ticket on the Tube, very handy when off duty as I could get into town for free, rock up at the Malcolm Club and get free tickets for the shows. The downside was that when coming off night shifts you tended to doze off and instead of getting out at Ruislip Gardens you'd wake up at Ongar and have to travel all the way back down the Central Line! Nice RAF camp though, lovely ladies from the AIDU and one or two from P&SS.

It was indeed a very pleasant friendly little station where everyone knew each other. I was there 79-82 and Mrs Ex-Ascot 94-97. Still had a Battle of Britain feel to it. I was fast tracked through pilot training so arrived still as a Plt Off. I was taken into the Sgt's Mess at Christmas by the other Sqn pilots. I was wearing a rain coat and introduced to the crusty old SWO as the new Sqn pilot. He thought it was a huge joke until i took off my coat and he saw the wings. Good God he said I haven't seen a Plt Off with wings since the war then proceeded to buy me copious amounts of beer.

Thursday so town day. Not too much to do today. Calm, scattered cloud, 22 degs but will make the 30s.

Slasher wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:01 am

Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:04 am

Capt what on earth was that thing on your plate? Looks like half a dead animal.

Actually a combo of 3 dead beasts sah. I wonder if anyone here can identify 'em. Entire dish was yummy and the boney remains chewed on for last night's dinner. Same with the remaining spuds.

Brekky was a bowl of oats and blueberries and fresh orange juice. Lunch will be a small pile of salad. Dinner most likely the same. Seems I gained a kilo when the outlaws were here.

Moonshine time!

The 3 beasts of Slasher's dietary apocalypse,
Each marked with a 6;
And the fourth beast riding on high,
Marked by the sign of the moon..

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From the Book of Diets as pononounced by Caco (aka the loon)







Caco

You escaped intact from the Sgt's Mess Christmas drinks?? Good effort sir....or you were bloody lucky.

At HQ Sporting Command, our branch's brand new, fresh out of Cranwell young man came along with our HoB who turned to us and said, as he winked, "Look after him please gents, it's his first time". We did, and the following morning the BN,FOOC young man had a one-way conversation with the HoB as to why, when the rest of the branch staff were in work on time, he didn't manage to make it until 11.30! The other officers in the branch were most grateful for the BN,FOOC "volunteering" to do the branch's allocation of Orderly Officer duties over the Christmas break.

B freezing here, force nine again and single figure temperatures. Roller shutters lowered. With all forms of heating on, house living room is at 18°.

First really heavy frost of the winter here. Temp hit -1 degrees Celsius last night. Scattered at 2500, Overcast at 4000. Grey, miserable etc. Visibility 10 kilometres or more.

Caco

Freezing here at Perry Oaks International as well, going to be a long 4 weeks until we get to Somerset West

Topsy-turvy UK - in these northern parts it's dull and gloomy but an unseasonable 11C having been 12C at 0455. I fear we shall pay for it towards the end of the month....

Cacophonix wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 5:03 am

Slasher wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:01 am

Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:04 am

Capt what on earth was that thing on your plate? Looks like half a dead animal.

Actually a combo of 3 dead beasts sah. I wonder if anyone here can identify 'em. Entire dish was yummy and the boney remains chewed on for last night's dinner. Same with the remaining spuds.

Brekky was a bowl of oats and blueberries and fresh orange juice. Lunch will be a small pile of salad. Dinner most likely the same. Seems I gained a kilo when the outlaws were here.

Moonshine time!

The 3 beasts of Slasher's dietary apocalypse,
Each marked with a 6;
And the fourth beast riding on high,
Marked by the sign of the moon..

.
From the Book of Diets as pononounced by Caco (aka the loon)





Caco

Or should that be by the shine of the moon! A slur mixed with a more appropriate moonlike property or context.

Slash, I am sure you are as fed up (in a manner of speaking) with my piss poor poetry and teasing about your diet as you are with the diet itself, so I will desist and inform you that I, too, have just started a diet and the pain thereof is not going to be ameliorated by moonshine so I guess the last laugh is on me.

Caco

No before and after photos, please

I, too, have just started a diet and the pain thereof is not going to be ameliorated by moonshine so I guess the last laugh is on me.

Woody wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 9:26 am

No before and after photos, please

I, too, have just started a diet and the pain thereof is not going to be ameliorated by moonshine so I guess the last laugh is on me.

My body is a temple Woody! Not so much of perfection, as of doom!

Caco

Morning.
Another blue but cold day here.
Awaiting Manuel to deliver a full gas bottle and take the empty one away, then I shall be out to get some cash and eggs. Interesting diet is that!

Normal Thursdays have been resumed...it's Art Group for Mrs IB.

Son was diagnosed as having Menieres disease yesterday.

Morning,
Same wx as all week so far, clear, cloudless, just a little cool could use another 5 degrees.

Dogs wanted out at just turned midnight, having been emptied at 2315, one pretty much straight back in, 'tother condescended to return at 0247. One is banjaxed.

I have to wait for normal Thursday, SM goes Pilates at 1600.

One is having trouble downloading Silent Witness in HD at present.

*Octo* if you am only a couple of kg above target then that sounds ok to me, medics want me to loose 20kg. I have no idea where to start.

All fer now.


The grammatical errors are deliberate.

***** Ibbie sorry to read that. He's having a rough time.

Don't care wot was on that plate Capt but as virtual veggies it looked 'orrible. We will do the occasional small amount of red meat in the camps, chicken and fish. Potatoes looked good though.

4M:

You escaped intact from the Sgt's Mess Christmas drinks?? Good effort sir....or you were bloody lucky.

Considerable practice during orfficer and pilot training. Only time they nearly killed me was when I was staying in a Sgt's Mess as a civilian instructor with the ATC. My Flt Sgt F/E and I nearly killed ourselves on champagne cocktails on a KLM flight to the F.E. once. The girlies didn't know how to pour them so I said 50% Remy and 50% Moet. We had started off with Remy with coffees in the lounge at AMS for breakfast.

Back from town. Successful mission. Found very neatly cut and edged lawns. Nothing like the smell of freshly cut grass. Clouded over, rumblings in the distance.

Wodders, posts crossed. Octo can just take off her ski boots. Yes, you may have to take different measures. Capt Slasher can advise.

Ibbie wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 9:48 am

Son was diagnosed as having Menieres disease yesterday.

Ibbie maybe your son should consider taking Stugeron to treat his condition; https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/d ... nnarizine/

Wodrick wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:30 am

*Octo* if you am only a couple of kg above target then that sounds ok to me, medics want me to loose 20kg. I have no idea where to start.
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Wodrick maybe you should stick to a Mediteranean /Spanish diet. On a serious note Dr Moseley's diet currently being serialised in the DM looks rather good and healthy.

Few rumbles in the jungle; I hope it will produce some rain.

OFSO wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:11 pm

A Sunday Lunch with friends, discussing to where we move next, flats etc. After friend left, checked my Google feed on phone. Three info-ads on my Google Feed that were not there before.... As far as I am concerned the matter is proven: Google listens !

OFSO

There is a thread at TOP that may interest you!

Just a production cock-up.

ian16th wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:34 am

Move over Red Bull!

A Zambian firm said on Wednesday it had suspended production of an energy drink after a consumer in Uganda complained of a prolonged erection, with tests suggesting it contained the active ingredient of Viagra.

I find it hard to know why he complained!

Sildenafil Citrate eh!

Caco

4mastacker wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:34 am

You escaped intact from the Sgt's Mess Christmas drinks?? Good effort sir....or you were bloody lucky.....

As an innocent and wet behind the ears Acting Sub Lieutenant, one Christmas I was invited to the Chief Petty Officers' Mess at RNAS Sembawang, Singapore. I remember being plied with more than a drop of neaters*. As officers we were not entitled to the daily rum ration so this was my first experience of it. I don't remember leaving or how I got back to the Wardroom but it must have given me the taste for it as I'm rarely without a bottle of Pusser's Rum in the house. The 15 year old version is particularly pleasant! *neaters = undiluted rum. Grog = two parts water to one part rum for Leading Hands and ranks below.