Dirty weekends or ...? (View Post)

He'd have a Falklands fox, albeit dead, for scale, perhaps. (View Post)

A character in one of the Palliser cycle by Trollope. (View Post)

Also an informant/intelligence asset to the UK secret services IIRc - but I don't know enough to make a judgement call. (View Post)

Surely it's a work song for weighing the anchor etc by hand windlass or capstan, to coordinate the rhythm - and the drunk is lying blotto after his last run ashore and NOT DOING HIS SHARE OF THE WORK… (View Post)