Thanks for sharing Fruity. I hope you don’t mind me adding to yours and Gums data.
As it tells you below the YouTube clip the heroic Jervis Bay inspired Alistair Macleans novel H.M.S Ulysses. Also no words I could scribble here could match the comments that have been added to the clip
Don’t know about anyone else Spitty but I’ve always been a scribbler and a doodler, ever since I held my first crayon in me hand I’ve been ruining good wallpaper, furniture, doors, copybooks, and do you remember those sheets of plain paper the butcher used to wrap the meat in? well they were a Godsend to me as a boy. Mega doodle dandy, that was me, I just can’t help meself, my dear granny used to say I could talk me way out of hell, I do hope she’s right.:-)
Some however are lucky and can express themselves in a few words, all I can say there is blessed are they who use little ink, for their nibs shall never be blunted.
It is wise, to keep a little ink in your pen, just in case of im-mergency.
Thanks. I hadn’t seen that before, nor was I aware of the link to Ulysses.
The ships in the convoy had been ordered to scatter, and were under strict orders not to return to the area to search for survivors in case the German battleship, or U-Boats, were lurking.
The civilian crew of the Swedish freighter that found the 65 remaining JB crew disobeyed this order before returning to Nova Scotia. Sadly a number of the JB survivors were killed on the next convoy run.
The film, San Dimitrio, London is worth watching if you are interested in heroic nautical deeds. It was a fuel tanker, and one of the ships in the Jervis Bay Convoy that made it home, despite being abandoned by its crew when it caught fire after being shelled by the Admiral Scheer. Well you would wouldn’t you?
Part of the crew re-boarded the ship and managed to jury rig steering and got her all the way back to Liverpool, refusing a tow as they rounded Ireland.
Another story is that of the Fuel tanker, Ohio, used to lift the Malta blockade. An Esso ship, crewed by American volunteers, was bombed and set on fire twice, each time the crew abandoning ship, then returning after each attack.
With pumps going full tilt, no power, and sinking, it was strapped between to RN destroyers and towed into Valetta harbour with its gunwales awash.
It’s much needed cargo of aviation spirit and fuel oil safely delivered as per contract!
reminds me of me first girlfriend askin - have ya kept any ink in ya pen - I said NO - but I know what - now we’ve got an emergency!!
i met Alistair Maclean in about 1973 , he had just published
CARAVAN TO VACCARES & was signing copies of his book in my bookstore.
He was a very shy man & left at the first polite moment.
just saying…
I haven’t always been a pompous old fart you know, I’ve been all over Europe , raised 3 kids,7 grandkids , been married 47 years, had an illustrious career oh whats the point?
Whatever you may think you are Robert don’t change for anyone.
“Every man is what environment and heredity make him.”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses
Pancake day tomorrow so will you be partaking of that delicacy and will it be traditional with a soupcon of sugar and a gentle squeeze of fresh lemon.
Pancake races derived from a 15th century housewife in Olney who was so busy making pancakes that she forgot the time. When she heard the church bells ringing for mass she ran out of her house, still carrying her pan and pancake.
History does not inform us of the priests reaction or if penance was called for 
i thought he was saying that allistair was saying HE was a pompous old fart etc… oh bugger!
RJ - was alistair calling YOU a pompous old fart?
Squeezing Lemons has been set to music, disgusting, If you ask me.
But some folks are easily Led.
oranges and lemons precedes it by many years? I believe St Clements wrote the humble tune!
Yes, I remember that tune, didn’t it have a bell Ending?
Same here but as Alistair was purported to be a very shy man he would never have uttered those words in public.
From a purely feminine view the fact the leading ladies in most of his books are named Mary, or Marie, or Maria is a page turning pull… Why? Because his wife’s name was Mary.
You have to love a writer who uses his spouse as the prototype for all of his heroines.
I thought it was “a chopper to chop off your head.”
Delightful things these nursery crhymes, ain’t they.
A bellending – yes created in the town of bellending Lan caster sugar!!
I knew a geezer who caught an embarrassing disease off a Warwickshire Lass, I think it was called “Haseley Knob”!
I enjoyed a few pancakes earlier on today Solo, I’d never have known had you not mentioned it, the wife was surprised when I told her, she normally never forgets anything, especially when she’s owed a few bob. 
So much for the origin of the pancake race, now what about the word “Shrove” I’ve never heard it uttered on it’s own, it’s always coupled with Tuesday.
Shrove_Tuesday
“The word shrove is a form of the English word shrive, which means to obtain absolution for one’s sins by way of Confession and doing penance. Thus Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the custom for Christians to be “shriven” before the start of Lent”
Strange word that “Shriven” now try to put that word into a sentence “The wife is shriven me round the bend”, no good, I can’t see a sentence with shrove, shrive, or shriven fitting in with todays language, enter RJ or Spitty, it’s right up their street.:-)
I was watching Alistair McLean’s “Guns of Navarone” on Sunday RJ, a great action/suspense writer.
I thought the Pope was the only one allowed a pompous fart.
I’m afraid I’m not a one for the travels at all, never got any further than Britain, and all around this island, I’ve been a home bird all me life.
travel broadens the mind - you meet more broads when you travel but if you wanna be bossed about by one woman all ya life go for it - we’ll just sit and watch!!
Who is watching who comes to mind?
