"... if my sweetheart is stout ..." ho, ho Piers!
I was at RAF Lossiemouth for the operational conversion unit to the
Jaguar in 1978 when I was introduced to "cheap beer" (CB for short) and
"dear beer" (DB) - 70 shilling and 80 shilling? I soon found that the
taste, not good to begin with, grew worse as an evening drew on, and
that the hangover was awful. It might of course have been the way it
was kept in the Officers' Mess bar, but no one was particularly
enamoured of those beers. Nowadays a bar has to stock good chewy beer;
at Wyton we have Directors and IPA for instance and you are welcome to
visit some Friday for a Happy Hour.
For our friends outside Scotland, RAF Lossiemouth is on the Moray Firth
east of Inverness and very close to the Highlands of Scotland. It is a
lovely spot and flying from there was one of the highlights of my
career.
Chris
On 4 Nov 2003, at 11:06, Piers Hemy wrote:
Fair point Chris, I had tongue firmly in cheek when I wrote it - and
full
marks for your breadth of knowledge (from Lossiemouth or Leuchars?).
But I
wondered if anybody would know a shilling - and Red Barrel. Perhaps
it's
better they didn't. And I won't ask if your sweetheart is stout.
Sorry all, this must seem completely unintelligible - you will have to
do as
Chris implies - go to Scotland.
Piers
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