A dilemma (NSFW)

[David Morton]

I've had a few get well messages this morning after Capn Hardy posted something about Dry Rot.
Dry rot is a fungal infection of timber in old properties especially after water ingress. It is endemic in old buildings in the London area and my eldest daughter Sarah has bought such a building in Kensington.
Here is a reference to dry rot:
Dry rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My involvement in Sarahs apartment is 'clerk of works' for the refurbishment
As far as my health is concerned I have never felt better, my heart is a steady 64 to 66 bpm, my blood pressure was 115/75 this morning, and my cholesterol is 3.4 and I am not on any medication at all. It is my intention to out live a few of the tosspots (that I ignore anyway) on this website.
Thank each of you for your concern.
.

 

[David Morton]

I've had a few get well messages this morning after Capn Hardy posted something about Dry Rot.
Dry rot is a fungal infection of timber in old properties especially after water ingress. It is endemic in old buildings in the London area and my eldest daughter Sarah has bought such a building in Kensington.
Here is a reference to dry rot:
Dry rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My involvement in Sarahs apartment is 'clerk of works' for the refurbishment
As far as my health is concerned I have never felt better, my heart is a steady 64 to 66 bpm, my blood pressure was 115/75 this morning, and my cholesterol is 3.4 and I am not on any medication at all (after a 5 bypass op in 2007). It is my intention to out live a few of the tosspots (that I ignore anyway) on this website.
Thank each of you for your concern.

 

[David Morton]

SEE, I said I was useless at IT......:furious:

 

[Keith]

David. Show me where I said that you personally had dry rot?

David. You want to get your facts rite before you post hear. :laugh:

 

[Mark]

David is clearly confirming that his religious views have changed and he likes to eat babies. It is clear from what he wrote in his previous message. Just ask Jim C if you don't believe me. Jim excells at finding the 'real' meaning in other people's posts by ignoring what they actually say!

 

[Paul Brameld]

Well, I really thought I'd covered up quite well considering, I mean, she's not like that you know.... I have been a tad more careful of her modesty..

What I really want to know is, how do "THEY" know?

Is it humint?

Puzzled..

Anyway Paul, thanks for your interest - hope you can assist old chap.

(This could run and run!)

Now enough of this tread drift & Mr M's ailments , let's get back to the nitty gritty.
rockonsmilerockonsmile
Nice plumbing Keith, anyone mention stop cocks?

 

[Mark]

My Cock stopped long ago!

 

[David Morton]

I have no religious beliefs.
Some were on the keyboards early this morning sending me messages of support in my last vestiges of living with Dry Rot so it was clearly a perception by some.
It may have been lost in translation.
Mem Sahib is on the BA115 to JFK this afternoon so a week or so of tranquility while she hits the stores downtown. She's sitting up in the pointy end with my daughter Sarah so I expect they will be partaking of the Krug (again) and falling off at the other end.
I might just go somewhere foreign next week as well.

Mark - try the blue diamond shape smarties - the 100g size is fun.

 

[Marcus]

There are other blue (albeit bigger) things to make her scream...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1UTizxmrPA]yak-52 aerobatic silvia screaming - YouTube[/ame]

 

[David Morton]

I was told thats how all of the passengers looked after I'd flown them.
I took my wife flying with her sitting in the RHS during some free fall work.
I raced the jumpers down but it was wasted on her - She had her eyes shut from FL180 all the way down to the grass.

 

[Randy V]

Poor girl, looked like she was ready to blow about the time he was just over the runway and she thought they were going to land, then WO throttle, back and over with the stick! OMG!!!!

 

[Paul Brameld]

Great video but could someone please explain the appropriateness or otherwise of website name :huh::huh::huh:

 

[David Morton]

The art of flying

Kunst = art

Flug = fly(ing)

 

[Paul Brameld]

I think the expression is : Yeah right! :laugh:

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

I'd hurl. Don't fancy being upside down, especially with nothing but air between me and the ground. No, thank you. Your stomach is tougher than mine, David.

 

[David Morton]

Jim,
It's often down to the breakfast. The R.A.F. recognised that years ago and there was always a bacon and egg preflight meal available. Personally I like the "blackpudding blended with a couple of very fresh eggs in a glass" breakfast if it's going to be an arduous day. Its really easy in the field without cooking but if they are not quite as fresh then its a bit watery - but still nice. Often used a coal-miners breakfast as well.

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

OK, what's a coal-miners' breakfast? If I want to know, that is.....y'all eat some weird stuff at the beginning of the day, no offense...

 

[Keith]

Well it's not that easy to describe but if you can imagine the lining of a cows stomach, poached in milk with a dash of vinegar and boiled onions, followed by fried congealed pigs blood then that's close enough.

David is from the North East and the breed them pretty tough up there. They eat granite drink Jet-A and shit dynamite.

The proper words for the breakfast are of course Tripe and Onions and Black Pudding. There's also White Pudding, but I'm not sure I should tell you what's in that. Other breakfast delicacies might include fried glands (sweetbreads) kidneys, fish swim bladders, and testicles.

Here is a typical coal miners kitchen. The wife is actually stirring the recently drained pigs blood and helping it coagulate. There are other ingredients, such as sinew and gristle and seasoning to taste of course. Black Pudding recipies are not written in stone and can vary from town to town. Some of the better ones I'm told contain whisky and lots of pepper. I can assure you that David is somewhat of a Tripe and Black Pudding connoisseur but there is no way I could eat the stuff.

Down South we enjoy jellied eels, snails and frogs legs but the Northern sophisticats would never eat anything that was recently leaving a slime trail down a drainpipe or tasted like a handful of river silt.

I suppose it's a climate thing really and the fact that whereas we drink shandy and sit at desks in the sunshine, they work in shallow tunnels a mile underground in pools of stagnant water.

 

[David Morton]

Indeed some of the best commercially available black puddings come from Scotland and I actually love to go north -almost as far on the mainland to a place called Wick in Caithness where probably one of the best comes from. If a Scottish sojourn fits your wallet ( fabulous
Fly fishing and stalking) then I like Mackays hotel where the black pudding at breakfast
is just outrageously good. They also make their own Cullen Skink soup which is great in a flask with a dram as a mid morning break and very warming if your wading as well. (we old bods do get cold so a couple of drams of islah mist opens up the capillieries - ok its a blend but very peaty and I can't tell it from laphroaig - a good single and at about 10 in the morning after an hour or so in the water it's very welcome).
Google Mackays hotel on ebenezer in Wick. My eldest daughter is just back and brought four fish and the twelve pointer she shot ( 7 hours stalk and just over 200 yds with a single shot) and also brought back a full black pudding. She changed her clothes into city folk garb and jetted out again to the U.S. taking her mum and leaving me with her bounty. I'm off early to the jaguar event at the National Agricultural Ground with black pudding and eggs in my flask for 'bait' ( northern-minerspeak for prepared breakfast and lunch) and a sizeable chunk of salmon for lunch. Looking for a series one and a half E I'm advised.

Where ever you are breakfasting, enjoy.

 

My Grandmother and Grandfather were from Wick David. She was a herring packer and he was a fisherman. Must be where I inherited my love of black pudding and sweetbreads from.... Went and visited there some 15 years ago. Lovely little place.