KeithMacdonald

A man sees a sign outside a house - 'Talking Dog For Sale.' He rings the bell, the owner appears and tells him the dog can be viewed in the back garden. The man goes to the garden and sees a very nice looking Labrador Retriever sitting there. "Do you really talk?" he asks the dog. "Oh Yes!" the Labrador replies. With a sly wink, as though he was from that Churchil advert. After recovering from the shock of hearing the dog talk, the man asks: "So, tell me your story?" The Labrador looks up and says, "Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I was sold to the SAS. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one imagined that a dog would be eaves dropping. I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years. But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at Heathrow Airport to do some undercover security work, wandering round near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded several medals. Then I got married, had a few puppies, and now I've just retired." The man is amazed. He goes back into the house and asks the owner how much he wants for the dog. "Ten quid," the owner says. "£10? But your dog is absolutely amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheaply?" "Because he's a lying bastard, he's never been out of the back garden!"

Portsmouth to Jersey is c.10 hours on the Condor Commodore Clipper (monohull). Slow and relaively sedate. Poole to Jersey on the Condor Voyager is c.4 hours. My wide calls it the Vomit Comet.

It looks like Lon Chainey Junior and the Queen both ticked the [X] no publicity box. Has anyone met his tailor yet?

J.F.J. De Nul, a dredger https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9260677

In all the excitement about Freguson's shipyard finally launching one ship, I'd nearly forgotten this: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/20033085.scottish-ferries-row-misses-real-issue---vessels-unsuited-islands-serve/ And what we could have had. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/23032451.scots-executive-fronts-800m-clyde-shipbuilding-revolution-resolve-ferries-crisis/

Was it Sir Les Patterson?

Fred Dibnah is alive and well, and still repairing chimneys.

Just spotted on Al Beeb. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68806116 Goodness me chaps, I do wonder what on earth Mr Ramsay's response might be? I could include a few guesses, but I'd prefer not to get banned by RMWeb mods.

FTFY

True, but just wait until I show my model of Bridport Station. There's a Class 121 Bubble-Car somewhere in there.

It's times like this when the options available just aren't enough What we need is

Yes, looks like there was still revenue to be collected from whoever wanted to display advert posters. Even if none of the revenue was being spent on maintenance?

Was that Hugh Janus?

Given the toxic contents, I'm guessing that would also be a quick test of the quality of the anti-fouling paint the shipyard had applied?

Different times and different shipyards.

Drinking the contents before it gets wasted is also useful.

How many ears has Captain Kirk got? Three. Right ear, Left ear, and the final front ear.

Perhaps the German word for "styling" is "functional" ?

We'd be laughing and sneering at them as examples of a backward-looking country in decline, stuck in a time warp, unable or unwilling to learn. Oh wait ...

Is that the one that fell over in a Scottish boatyard?

Agreed, and why bother renaming it at all? I thought it was all part of trying to convince us that Shipton Abbot is somewhere mysterious in Devon. Not around Looe in Cornwall at all. Like the house boat the Inspector is living on. Which I think is close to Pentille Castle on the bend of the Tamar, https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=50.459217~-4.239171&lvl=18.0&style=h

I except loads of us have heard this on the low-fi radio. It's taken me many years to realise what a beautiful prayer is within.