BLUEMOMENT

This year Silkie will celebrate her 40th birthday on 18th May and we will be having a bit of a do to which you are all invited of course. The venue has yet to be decided but it will probably be at Dunstaffnage whether I am berthed there or not and it is probable that a new record for number of persons on board will be established so bring your wellies.

I'm too much of a cheapskate to buy them but does anyone have the bunting to enable me to celebrate this momentous occasion in the appropriate style and would you be prepared to lend it out for a few days?

try here
http://www.partydelights.co.uk/themes/f ... tAodYXpoPg

not too expensive

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We have borrowable bunting.

jim.r wrote:try here
http://www.partydelights.co.uk/themes/f ... tAodYXpoPg

not too expensive

Which bit of "I'm too much of a cheapskate to buy" was so hard to understand.

Seriously though, I can see that my OP wasn't specific enough - I really meant a set of proper code flags that I could arrange to include rude messages such as "Engage the enemy more closely from the rear" or "Scotland expects every man to do as he sees fit" rather than a string of plastic Union Jacks.

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Our borrowable bunting is tragically meaningless.

I have a set of code flags (doesn't everyone?) and serendipitously should be in Oban on the 17th May for the start of the SIPR on the 18th. If you fail to source elsewhere then you are welcome to them and you can dump them in a mate's boat at Dunstaffanage when you have finished partying.

I have a set I can post out to you if you like.
Last time I used them (Sea Port Marina Inverness) I think they spelt out "you missed a bit" during some mass power boat race around the UK, all the yachts were asked to dress for the occasion, so I was happy to oblige....

They are actually going all the way round this year. The shadenfreude bit of my cerebral cortex can't help hoping for a frisky easterly as they go through the Pentland Firth.

Silkie wrote:

jim.r wrote:try here
http://www.partydelights.co.uk/themes/f ... tAodYXpoPg

not too expensive

Which bit of "I'm too much of a cheapskate to buy" was so hard to understand.

Seriously though, I can see that my OP wasn't specific enough - I really meant a set of proper code flags that I could arrange to include rude messages such as "Engage the enemy more closely from the rear" or "Scotland expects every man to do as he sees fit" rather than a string of plastic Union Jacks.

I trust you are aware that there is an Admiralty/RYA recommended sequence for dressing overall which is specifically designed to prevent the unknowing from insulting all & sundry & possibly starting WW3.

I am - but you're speaking to someone with a Saltire on the jackstaff so concerned am I with vexillological verisimilitude.

"vexillological verisimilitude"

Whit the feck is one o' them

I hope it's nae ower painfu'

I've always enjoyed a little alliteration.

Its nearly as much fun as a cute angina...

Silkie wrote:I've always enjoyed a little alliteration.

D'ye take that wi' lemonade or cola?