The Poolie Bunker

How are we going to survive, need to get the recipe book out or more likely a visit to Iceland for the ping meals.
https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/busine ... s-5224830j

Why …do you get your food parcel delivered from Iceland,….

Looks like the Mail website it say…nowt

I still shop at Walter Wilson's.

Has Knights shut down, like?

Just a rumour,….

Delta for me.

Got me thinking there, the old man when he was back from his voyages would send me down to knights age 10 with a list of various items he required mostly Indian and Italian stuff but going in there was an education ..all the staff were blokes in white coats and the smell, especially of coffee sticks with me to this day….a deli before deli’s were heard of, but class.
Mind you, he kept me of school one Monday to go down for his order…cushty…but as I stepped out the door the bus full of my class mates in the first year at seniors,, drove past going back from Seaton Baths…all waving …..luckily the teachers up front were unaware.

well my delivery driver is still working. her in the kitchen is about to go down to morrisons.

One place I would like to visit Iceland the country, my daughter has been twice, loved it, very expensive though.

Well if they are i am off to the Windsor Restaurant.

I had my wedding reception there, not sure what it is now, council offices ?

Aye the wife was on about going last night oddly enough…and the Hurtigruten….another one she wants to try….explained it’s basically Norwegian postmen on a ship and she’d be bored after about the 40th fijord…she said she’ll see her mates to organise it

Aye …you always got a decent three courser.

I can’t see the pleasure of a cruise, been once, never again, bored shitless on the evening, it was like working offshore only I was paying them.

I think it is the shopping centre offices?

Jamie, it depends on the vessel.
When I’m down on the Solent and the teatime shuffle of liners depart Southampton..vulgar monstrosities looking like multi story car parks which are glorified floating resorts slide past…must be a fecking nightmare…go for a smaller vessel going to somewhere of interest….not the usual crap at the usual locations.
The bigger the ship, the further out you are from where you want to visit as the new monsters are now having to berth at locations like oil refineries because of the vessels drought and length…a bit like docking at Seal Sands for York.

Personnel….I refuse to say HR ..but I just have

An ex MD boss of mine called HR "a self fullfilling philosophy" and should be disbanded and the work done by line managers except for some of top end stuff.
He was an ex "Personnel" manager...........................

First your an expert of life in Thailand now on cruises Snowy both of which you have never experienced, maybe a tramp steamer though,the cruise ship left from Venice, it never had to dock at any oil refineries etc, where did you read that Snowy ?They are banned from Venice now, Greek Islands, Athens and Croatia,(Dubrovnic, Split)I dont class them as crap locations, the locations weren't the problem, I visited some very very interesting historical places. It was the time spent on the vessel, whilst from the outside it looks huge internally it felt very claustrophobic, made up of accommodation, restaurants etc. and not much else.
It’s ideal if you want to visit loads of different locations over a short period of time, you didn’t really have much time in each port to mooch around. In general the majority of the passengers were American. By just after 9 at night the entertainment areas etc were deserted, like the Marie Celeste, after being fed and watered the passengers disappeared to their cabins ready for the next port of call.

its not just the boredom its that dress code many have when you want to have a meal later in the day. if you have a holiday on the mainland you can pack up and go home if you are bored but not in the middle of the ocean.

Fallacy about dress code, I was on Norwegian Cruise Lines Ship, dress was casual , no different from going out in the town, it’s not a suit and tie thing. Boredom was the biggest thing for me on an evening plus we spent 2 days solid at sea once, all day to do it and nothing to do. The swimming pool area wasn’t big enough to accommodate all the 3000 + passengers. The food wasn’t all free, certain restaurants were like pub grub but if you wanted a steak you had to pay more. The other thing was the Service Charge, everything you bought had one. I paid $20 a day which I thought covered the SR, nope that was the behind the scenes staff, mostly Fillipinos and Indians, wonder if they ever saw it ?

Oh if you only knew little man…..carry on airing your ignorance…..
‘Tramp steamers’…are you living in a time warp in the 1950’s.
When you know least you print the most.
I spent six years plotting vessels courses and still have an ‘interest’..sad.

You might have plotted courses years ago but times have moved on since then, was it fon cruise liners ? Destinations now cater for cruise ships and if they can’t dock you get transported by boat ashore. I was on the cruise in 2011 and never went near an oil refinery etc.

The ultra large vessels whose DWT and GRT are now getting excessive and becoming popular with the mass market are unable to dock where liners used to dock so they dock at commercial berth’s further out and use shuttle coaches to take people to their destination.
I plotted the charts for the Navy….and at least if the glorified sat navs that are in use nowadays break down I can still get you there using the reliable ‘ Eye Ball Mk1’ and a pen and paper.

Off topic but it makes you wonder how the navigators in WW2 aircraft plotted the course to where they were going.

Dead reckoning or the stars…radar was coming into play more and flying on fixed beams to a target or area and locating the point of interest by cross beams or dead reckoning on speed, distance to travel headwind etc to be accounted for in the mix, the navigator earned his money that’s for sure

The other thing is those planes had little or no heating, it must have Baltic ?

And unpressurised as well

just wondered if delivery drivers are going on strike because they have to rely on dead reconning inside a cold and unpressurised cabin.

Don’t forget the flak on the M62….”

No idea what they get paid but if it’s the minimum wage there would have to be a huge mark up on the food to cover the cost of paying a delivery driver.

Interesting vlog about delivery drivers using substitute migrants to deliver the food,
https://youtu.be/XvhRr-lhQAQ?si=P9EMUzUNbJc2pmkj

Best gravy and chips anywhere , ever.