No need to apologise, all this nanny BBC news makes me smile as having worked in the Kalahari and Doha this nonsense we are fed just cracks me up.
I have never paid to fly to the sun but been fortunate enough to have been paid to work in some amazing places so this is suiting me and my good lady rather nicely.
Enjoy your warmer days.
I am with you Richard, after a working career mostly in the tropics my old body is enjoying this heat.... The newspapers and BBC always seem to overplay everything now... its nuts. I remember undertaking a 6 week drydock in Singapore with zero aircon in the ship, it was way above 45 deg in the engine room through the day, we cycled our work crews and regulary checked eveyone, making sure they cooled down and were hydrated, with regular changes of clean cotton coveralls.. The biggest issue was European types suffering the dreaded pricky heat rash... Heat in the tropics is managed!... In the UK the world is going to end when it goes above 30 deg C.!!
That's really interesting Dave, it must have been a killer down below at those working temperatures and I don't suppose the present day Graduates would cope.
Strange enough the most uncomfortable place I ever worked overseas was on Wolfe Island with high temps but the humidity was unbelievable it made Dubai seem like a holiday resort
, I swear I didn't feel dry for three months.
We had to walk three miles to the shop and return carrying it all as the shore gravel road had been washed out by an earlier hurricane, you just get on with it and look back with fond memories.
The diesel was dropped in nets slung under a Jetranger, so they got their priorities right.
It was one big adventure at twenty one and my first overseas contract and acting all grown up in charge.
Just noticed, good luck with your Plus Six, I hope it's not long now. Amazing flying machines
