Not The KD News - Week Ending 22nd September 2007
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Editorial
It is often said that 'KD is "dead". It does have its quiet times, but just look at this little lot we gathered this week. Not exactly dead is it?.... Sunday 16th SeptemberScotty G0EWH calls from the A491 and Marigold answers. Caroline was up early 6:30 cooking sausages and bacon at the church breakfast and is tired. Marigold was only up a few minutes ago and is muddled already. They have a QSO until Scotty signs off before descending the hill towards Hopwood services on the M42. M3FGO calls CQ a few times at 2pm, but no-one answers. At 14:15 The Vicca calls from Clee Hill, but no-one answers. There's a sense of deja-vu here. Didn't this happen last week, and the week before, and the week before that?...
Roger explains why he hasn't been on KD for a long time. Someone wrote off his car, so he's been using a borrowed on for some time. He's only just got his rig into his new car. He's also been very busy with his new web site www.kiteaerials.com. The Vicar is now coming back from Clee Hill, moaning that it's dead on 2 metres. Marigold says this is hardly dead, as there's quite a group of us on! Graham VK6RO from Perth asks if anyone knows Beryl G0GFE. The Vicar says he knows her very well, but she hasn't been on for 10 years. He thinks she'll probably be back on when 10 metres re-opens.
Marigold was having a senior moment and kept getting Kuith's surname wrong, so he "educated" her. It's Dickens, like Charles Dickens, not Dickinson, Dickson etc. Marigold will remember it now. Kuith asks where is GB3IT and what frequency is Wooferton on? Traitors! It was very quiet from 4pm onwards. The NTKDN reporter was able to have a rest. At 20:15 Lyndon 2E0PPZ calls "CQ for any possible contacts". All the impossible ones hold their breath and say nothing.
The Vicca announces that he's "Listening KD" a few times but no-one answers. They're all too busy "listening KD" too. At 21:55 Da Vicca and Marigold chat briefly while she serves out a curry she's been cooking. Vicca says he couldn't eat a curry that late. Marigold says she'll be up for another 6 hours, so it's not a problem. Monday 17th September
Kuith said that means he would have to keep walking down to the tin shed to change aerials. Kuiths philosophy is that he doesn't want to work till he's 65, retire then die. He either wants to live to 80 or 90, or die now so he can get off 18 months of work! The Vicar recommends the High Sierra Sidekick as a suitable HF aerial for Kuith's shed. It's motorised so it covers all bands up to 6m. Expensive, but cheaper if bought in the USA. Kuith said he ordered a vibroplex key from the states, but by the time he'd paid Customs & Excise, VAT, and the DHL "release fee" it only worked out 5 quid cheaper. The Vicar says the way to do it is to get a friend in USA to send it to you as a gift. The QSO finishes at 12:27.
KC1NG calls G4YGT at 13:45 - no answer At 15:15 KC1NG and G4ROJ/M discuss kite aerials, and Roger plugs his new website again. At 16:10 G4ZIB and Kuith discuss a problem with the 70cm repeater GB3KR, then defect to simplex.
Inevitably, the conversation turns to food, and the difference between chips, crisps and fries. Wilbur asks if we use turnips over here? Roger says that "mashed tatties and bashed neeps" (mashed potato and turnip) are a favourite in Scotland, and mentions haggis. Wilber has never heard of haggis, and Roger explains that it consisists of offal and herbs, boiled up in the lining of a sheep's stomach, with a generous slug of scotch whisky. Roger arrives at the chippy and they sign off. Renowned francophile Monsieur Jerry VA3JET connected and made a few calls for Roy the UneXploded Kitkat. 19:50 G0MJZ connected, and timed out. Another one with router problems! 19:55 G4ROJ connected via Internet. At 20:37 our Minister Of Disinformation, the late, great Toby G4YGT calls G7JMZ, who was connected via Internet. There is no answer, so Toby begins calling CQ via K2BNL etc. He makes some contacts and we all get thoroughly confused! Tuesday 18th SeptemberIt's food morning on KD...
At 12:28 The Vicar calls, and is answered by Kuith, on his way back from Cleobury. Keith says "You'd be proud of me, I had a beef salad sandwich and sat in a country lane enjoying the fresh air with a newspaper". And he's supposed to be working!
Whilst in the delicatessen, Kuith was reading a leaflet about Shropshire grown and pressed rape seed oil. Apparently is has lower saturated fat than olive oil and more omega3. Kuith has bought a bottle, and will start coooking with that instead of olive oil. He's got to get cholesterol and blood pressure down, now he's winding down to retirement. There was a nice selection of rolls, cobs, and faggots in the deli, plus chicken breasts rolled in pancetta. Kuith says he grills sausages rather than frying them. They say you should never prick a sausage - but Kuith pricks them and 1/3 of the sausages weight in fat comes out. The Vicar says cheese is bad for cholesterol. He goes on to say that Harry Tuffins does better sandwiches, nice and fresh and 2/3 the price - only £1.80 for a baguette. Kuith says he only has chips once a month. He used to fry them in beef dripping, which was nice, but naughty. According to The Vicar, the garage at Quatt does wonderful bacon, egg and tomato sandwiches, and he advises Kuith to go there. "Get yourself a Brosely pork pie as well". "And don't work too hard" is the Vicar's parting shot, as Kuith destinates.
When he comes back on, The Cradley Heathen says "It's quiet on here ay it? No-one called while you was away. What yo bin up to?" The Vicar says he went out wasting diesel and clogging up country lanes on Sunday. He visited some boot sales and Harry Tuffins, then ended up on Clee Hill, where he put out a few calls. He only got two QSO's, one on GB3VM and one on GB3KD. The rest of the band was dead. Admittedly Sunday afternoons is a dead time, but he would have thought he's hear something from up there.
At this point they are joined by Roger The Bodger G4ROJ. He's pleased to hear Mark and vice versa. Mark says he heard Roger on 80m, when he was using a kite aerial in Scotland. The Vicar bows out to empty the car. "Dodgy Trev" 2E0OBJ joins and agrees that it's been very quiet. In a fortnight's time, Roger is off to the "Festival Of Wind" in Caerphilly, the title of which conjures up some interesting images. Dodgy Trev is looking for a cheapo HF rig. Mark knows of one, but it's more than Trev wishes to spend. Mark says he's more of a VHF and 10 metre man, and there's not much point in having an HF rig just for 10 metres. Roger on the other hand says he's an HF man. He's got 4 HF setups, including an old Swan rig, which sounds very nice on air. He's been struggling with his laptop, trying to get the email working, and it makes him swear. Roger nips off for a cup of tea and says "Anyone else wish to take it up?" "I'm back" says The Vicar, reminding us of The Terminator. "He don't count!", is Roger's parting shot. The Vicar and Mark then discuss the rumour that Alinco are giving up making HF equipment, and spend 35 minutes in Anorak mode, talking about commercial rigs and model numbers. Everyone else falls asleep. Kevin "Ok There" M3KJD calls break around 2pm, and gets invited in but is ignored for 1/2 hour. He is gone by the time they put it round to him. Roger reappears, with a plastic cup of tea, and relates an interesting fact about his kite experiment last Sunday. He'd got S9+20db of noise and no other signals when the aerial was at 180 feet. But the noise suddenly disappeared as he hauled it below 50 feet, and he could then hear lots of signals. It just goes to prove that size isn't everything! The QSO ends at 14:30.
Toby tells Wilber that there was a frost last night, but it's been warm and sunny today. (Another classic piece of disinformation from Toby... It's only 14 degrees, and feels a lot cooler than that, due to a stiff northerly breeze!) The weather is nice in Missouri, and Wilber loves the fall time. It's getting near his dinnertime, so they sign off. Around 5:30pm Mike G4FHQ from Bromyard makes a couple of general calls. No-one answers, then Marigold and Toby answer him at the same time. Like buses, you wait ages for a QSO, then they all come at once! Marigold is busy making a cuppa, getting the washing in, watering plants and vacuuming the lounge, so she leaves Toby and Mike to it. Mike hasn't been on KD for about 18 months. He's still using his old FT221R, which tends to drift, and a portable ZL special indoors. He asks what the "SS" in Morse means, and Toby explains that it is a time signal. Mike is also confused by 'KD announcing that MB7IUR had connected. He's never heard of MB7 callsigns. Toby explains that they are 24/7 links, but he hasn't a clue where MB7IUR is. They leave a gap in case anyone on MB7IUR can tell them where it's located, but as usual they take fright and disconnect.
Mike says it would be nice to contact his daughter in Brisbane via KD's Echolink facility. Toby tells Mike about the two repeaters near Brisbane, and the Redcliffe net on Sundays. Mike says he'd need more modern equipment, but Toby describes how to do DTMF using a mobile telephone held next to the microphone. He demonstrates how to connect to the Redcliffe repeater, but it's 3am Down Under and the connection is refused. They sign off around 6pm to go and prepare their evening meals.
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Wednesday 19th September
At 13:25, VK2FREL calls CQ from Sydney Harbour, but is ignored. 13:43 A very scratchy G4ROJ/M calls - no answer. At 14:03 Dan 2E0SOA connects via the Internet and makes several calls for M1MST The Shark connects at 14:50 and calls. It's so distorted that non-one can tell what he's trying to say! Getting no response, he eats the microphone so he can sound even more punchy.
Bob 2E0XJS breaks in. He can also hear something else on channel, but KD is too strong. He chats with Dave and Toby for a while, then John M1AUN calls. No-one can tell what he's saying because he's too weak. He suddenly comes up a lot stronger when Marigold tightens a plug! Oops! G7WEY then jokes "What do you call an Irishman between two plates of glass? - Patty O'Door". Toby laughs, but no-one esle gets it. A prospective ham parks up near Toby and goes to see him, so they all sign off around 17:10. 17:40 G7VJT calls someone. 20:22 John M0JTP is called by M0ZAG and they "QSY" to somewhere secret without saying where they're going. Naughty! Around 9pm Jim G3ZQQ has a 5 minute QSO with Dan 2E0SOA about PSK31. Shortly afterwards, Jim has a QSO with John M1AUN, who's having problems connecting to stations via Echolink. Dan offered to help via an email conversation. Thursday 20th SeptemberIn the morning, G3ZQQ is talking to Neil M3UKO/M (home QTH Ledbury), showing him how to use the echolink facility. They're not having much luck. Hardly anything is connecting. Marigold breaks in and reboots the repeater, but it doesn't improve matters. It won't connect to GB3DX.
Wayne M5LLT, with a barely readable signal tries to help, but we don't really hear the fine detail of what he's trying to say. Marigold goes to have a delayed breakfast, leaving John and Wayne to QSY to simplex. Around midday, Kuith G4OCH/M is a Bell End coming towards Kidderminster. He has a QSO with Jim G3ZQQ. Jim says his wife is staying 3 nights at Blakeshall, so he's been going up and down the lane a lot. Something large has damaged many of the oak trees up there, leaving large branches hanging precariously. It was probably a big lorry, led down the lane by a dodgy satnav! Jim goes on to say that satnavs are directing big vehicles along a narrow no-through lane near the cricket club. He's been looking at Google Earth, and there are coloured dots at the 3 Crowns island and in the dip on the Bridgnorth road. The one at 3 Crowns island marks the site of a wartime pill box, and the other one a road block of the same era. Jim is amazed that such information is still on there after all this time. Kuith says he wouldn't have liked to be in a pill box - it was like saying to the enemy "Here I am, take pot shots at me". He would prefer to hide safely away from pill box, and let the enemy shoot it instead. When Kuith was contracting he went to a drift mine at Fauld, which had been a munitions dump during the war, and there had been a big explosion. He says it's amazing how many airfields are not on the map! A friend of Kuiths has bought an underground concrete bunker in the middle of a field. Jim says they were ROC (Royal Observer Corps) posts - he used to visit them as part of his job. There was one at Shatterford and one on the Lickey Incline. Jim gets a phone call and goes to make a cuppa. Kuith says he will pop in for a cuppa with Jim in a bit, but is just nipping into Maplins first.
Neil M3UKO comes back briefly to say that he once had to take a load of chicken skins to Wolverhampton, and when he asked what they were going to be used for he was told they made up 75% of a McDonalds chicken burger! Unfortunately, Kuith misses this fascinating nugget of information, as he's gone into McMaplins. 15 minutes later, Kuith is heading to Jim's for a cuppa. Marigold suggests that Jim set up a table and chair beside his driveway, so that Kuith, who loathes walking, can just drive up to it and stay in the car, like a drive-in tea shop. In the afternoon: Jim worked Kuith for 10 minutes. The Vicar called, and no-one answered. Dan 2E0SOA kept connecting, and people kept calling him but he didn't answer. Toby had a QSO with Lars in Sweden. G7WEY had a QSO with someone. And your scribe took the rest of the day off from reporting this drivel!... Friday 21st SeptemberFriday mornings are usually quiet, and this one was no exception. Kuith G4OCH calls at 11:35 and no-one answers.
But you know how it is when you say you've got to go.... Everyone thinks it's a great time to call you! So Kuith, who is at a friends wedding in Wombourne, calls Jim and talks gobbledegook about handles, shoulder straps, 4 ampere-hours and something that he showed Jim yesterday. Jim said he "prefers a carrying handle". Jim cuts the QSO short and goes "back to cold toast and water". A shark emerges at 13:25 and growls a lot. He lurks for a while, then makes a surprise attack before descending back to the deep. Phew, that was close! Oh no, we spoke too soon, he's back, and he's madder than ever... 13:36 Steve G6UYG from Shrewsbury calls CQ via Echolink. He's been on a few times but we've never heard him call before. 13:50 SM5LBR repeater connects, but no-one calls. Shortly afterwards, VICAR/M makes a few calls, but no-one answers because he sounds too miserable. It's dull, it's raining. No one wants to be made even more depressed. G0WPB calls G1LOP at 14:25 - unusual time for him? There is no answer The afternoon is deathly quiet. Just a few bleeps from The Cradley Heathen, who seems to be testing a new rig, and some random noises from the Swedish repeater. In the evening Kuith is returning from the wedding reception and is discussing the High Sierra Sidekick HF aerial with The Vicar. "You'd be proud of me with this food thing", he says, "I had a box of sushi from Sainsburys this morning". "Not my cup of tea" says The Vicca. "The nearest I got to sushi was 300g of whilks from the fish market". Kuith doesn't fancy those. When you have a rabbit or a chicken, they take out the guts and brains and eyeballs, but they leave all those in shell fish. He doesn't fancy eating the rubbish in the intestines. He had Oysters last week, and says "I cut em open & scrapes the guts out". The Vicca says he getting disillusioned with the low level of activity - hams seem to be the worst at communicating. He says he's using simplex more, because he gets more contacts, admittedly only with people he knows. "You can call and call on S20 and never get a response", he says. "But if you have a QSO on that channel, you get 4 people shouting - this is the calling channel!". The other day, he heard someone say "this is the breaking channel". Kuith thinks this is because no-one serves a proper apprenticeship on ham radio like they did in the old days. Tomorrow he will probably throw 6 isolators or discobnnect 2 wires in each panel, and that will be the sum total of his work. He arrives home and they sign. Saturday 22nd SeptemberStuart G0TBI/M calls, but gets no reply.
Jim says he has been carrying tiles up and down a ladder. Talk of ladders prompts Will into talking about his aerials, and how he needs to modify them. He says he holds the DX record for getting into KD. Jim says he thought it was M1DDD, but he's in a different category. Jim then has to go radio silent while he goes past The Lock pub. He feels conspicuous talking into a rig, yet everyone has mobile phones these days! Jim can just about remember horse drawn boats going under this bridge in the early 1950's. Will wonders why we didn't put the repeater on Clee Hill? At this point Jerry connected. Jim says Kidderminster is in a hole, and it's uphill every way out. KD was meant as a community repeater, but if it was on clee hill it would be too busy and the locals wouldn't get in. Jim and Jerry discuss bicycle mobile, and Jim remembers working WB2REM bicycle mobile on HF SSB. Will says he's got to go for something to eat. The Vicar jumps in and says they'd never allow a repeater on Clee Hill, and he's not stopping. Roy G1UXK joins and asks Jerry to confirm his email address. Jim goes silent because there are lots of people on the towpath. Jerry spells out his email address, then Jim goes QRT in heavy traffic. The Vicar arrives home and goes QRT. Someone comes into the shop, so Roy goes QRT at 13:40. VA3JET called Mark, but got no reply. Two minutes later, G0WPB/M called G1LOP, but got no reply, as usual. Will then chats with Jerry and looks at the KD web site. Predictably Jerry mutters about his space bar!
The Vicar argues that it's the same distance from his house to Catchems End as it is to Stourbridge, but Marigold doesn't believe it (According to the map, it's roughly 3.5 miles to Catchems End and at least 4.5 miles to The Broadway). Marigold reminds His Grace that it's time to start preparing the vicarage for Christmas. An unusualy jovial vicar says that his grandkids tell him he's going to have a jolly old time, and the vicarage will be festooned inside and out with lights. "It will be like National Lampoons Christmas!", he says. Marigold asks what his great-grandkids think of this, and The Vicar replies "Hey, I'm only 60!" ONLY? As The Vicar approaches Stourbridge, Marigold tells him he's gone a bit "ten-one". "That's 'cos I'm over the hill", he replies. Marigold is concerned that he'll lose the repeater, but he says he's "got a proper mobile rig now, that goes up to 50 watts". Oh dear, 4.5 miles for fish and chips, excessive Christmas lighting, and now a high power rig...The Vicar's carbon footprint has just gone up a shoe size! Toby rejoins the QSO, after having been called away to the phone. Monsieur Jerry of Sarnia then joins too, and Marigold signs out, as she's getting into Worcester. The Vicar tells Toby that he went to Birmingham city centre for the first time in 17 years the other day, and what's more, he'd gone by train. It was free parking at at Stourbridge Junction, and the fare was a pound cheaper than from Kiddy at £3.80 (We're not sure if that was the normal or OAP rate?) So that's a couple of quid's worth of diesel to save a pound on the fare and a pound on parking... Ok Vicar, we'll concede that one! The Vicar wasn't impressed with the new Brummegem though. According to him it's been "decimated", and "you have to be like a mountain goat" to get around it. He'd bought some "whilks" (don't you mean whElks Dave?), earning him the new nickname of "Mister Whilks" (Anyone remember Emmerdale - "Ay up mister Wilks!"?)
Around 11:30pm we are treated to a half-hour musical interlude, including the "Shake 'n Vac" and various songs by Chas and Dave Letters To The EditorPlease email your letters to Charlotte, at the address below, and clearly state that it is for inclusion in "Letters To The Editor". We reserve the right to edit letters for brevity and taste We haven't received any letters this week. It strikes us that, in general, radio hams prefer to talk rather than write. Come on folks, it's so easy to send an email! Let's hear YOUR views... Do it now! Final CommentAlthough it doesn't seem long since summer, there are now only 94 days left till Christmas, so don't leave it too late to buy your Christmas lights and grotesque inflatable Santas, otherwise The Vicar will have snapped them all up! Our insider at the MEB tells us that one of their scheduled jobs for the autumn is the installation of a new electricity sub-station at the vicarage, so it looks like it's going be a big display this year! Remember, if you have any photos, gossip, funny stories about yourself or other rogues, "letters to the editor", or anything else you'd like to get off your chest, please email Charlotte, at |
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Roger The Bodger G4ROJ/M calls at 2:30pm, and is answered by Marigold. He's hoping someone can tell him about the state of 80m. He's in a field, flying a crosswind dipole at 180 feet, and is getting 20 over 9 noise levels but no signals. Marigold says it's no good asking her about HF, as her aerial fell down, and the rig is buried under junk! At this point Kuith G4OCH/M joins to offer his services. He can go on 80m when he gets home in 1/2 hours time.
At 15:05, after being unheard for a week, Toby appears from nowhere, announcing that Paul GM6MEN is about to come on via the Internet. Marigold says he must be psychic, because we'd heard no announcements. It turns out that he'd been on GB3SV (traitor) and they'd QSY'd to KD. Paul is testing his own link. His dad Vin G4ULS used to live in the converted church on Long Bank. The Vicca knew him too. In fact he used to preach sermons there when it was still a church.
Ten minutes later, Monsieur Jerry of Sarnia Va3JET calls, in turn, G1UXK, G4YGT, 2E0FGT, and "last but not least" Eddie G7GCS. He then sings "Nobody loves me, nobody cares", before departing.
Kuith/m calls around 11:40 - no reply.
At 12:30 Scotty G0EWH in his shuttlepod at Ringwood puts out a general call via MB7IBH. Marigold answers. Scotty's having a lazy day of shore leave. Marigold comments that the audio from MB7IBH is brilliant, and Scotty had noticed it was good the other way too. Marigold says she went to La Brasserie last week. Scotty is thinking of going there with Mrs Scotty sometime. The QSO finishes at 12:50.
Around 5pm, Wilbur and Roger The Bodger have a QSO. Wilber's in reasonable health we're pleased to hear. It's a very warm day over there, and Wilber's turnips are coming along nicely. Roger is on his way to the chippy for some fish and chips. Luckily he remembers just in time that he's only got to buy chips, to go with the chops his wife is cooking!
Around 11:10 am, Kuith G4OCH/M is on his way to Cleobury for bread, and works Ken M0ABF. Referring to Kuith's accent, Ken says "it's nice to hear someone talking proper". Ken has just come back from 2 weeks fishing in Ireland. Kuith says he's heard the fishing there is legendary, but Ken says the river fishing wasn't any good because the Eastern European immigrants have decimated the stock. Apparently, they eat the fish instead of throwing them back!
The Vicar observes that there's a McDonalds near one of Kuith's jobs. Kuith says, "Macdonalds are nothing to me, balderdash, piffle, there are better foods in life than McDonalds". The Vicar says, despite what he often says to the contrary, he adores Burger Kings. He'd live there if he could.
Around 1pm, The Vicar brings The Cradley Heathen onto KD from simplex, and chats with him whilst on his way to netto for dog food (or "dog's grub" as Mark puts it). His Holiness grudgingly admits that the repeater is easier for him than simplex in this part of town. They went on to discuss "Paul" (presumably M0VCO?), who hasn't been heard for a while. The Vicar parks in the shade of a tree, and goes QRT for a while. He's gone to worship at the altar of Netto.
Today he's been repairing a Dyson Turbo vacuum cleanmer which he picked up for a song at a boot sale. It was cutting out, but only needed the filter changed, and was now working perfectly, so he was temporarily in The Dragon's good books. He was just off doing some shopping for the Dragon.
At 5pm Wilber N0VJS calls, and Toby answers, saying he's probably weak, because he's using a mobile vertical whip indoors, instead of his beam. Toby is trying to think of something for tea and asks Wilber if he's got any ideas? Wilber suggests cheesecake. Toby says he loves cheesecake, but prefers the cooked variety. He used to make his own, when he could get the ingredients from a deli in Kidderminster, but it's not there now. His favourite is Polish Chesecake.
Toby is a traitor, he keeps telling people about GB3SV, encouraging them to play away from KD. Mike says he has no 70cm, and probably couldn't get 'SV anyway, because the path is too obstructed, whereas he gets to 'KD through a narrow corridor between the hills. Toby says that no-one can get 'SV very well - he can virtually see it, but finds it hard to get in. Mike says he used to use rain-scatter in his microwave days, and suggests Toby tries beaming off a rain cloud.
Jim G3ZQQ is cycling to Blakeshall, and Scotty is picking his brains about intermittent ADSL. Jargon such as drop wire and NTE5B is bandied about. Possible problems could include unterminated stub cables, a/b reversal, RF pickup, and mains leakage. He suggests that Scottty disconnects all the circuits and re-introduces them one by one until the fault occurs.
16:33 G7WEY/M talks with TOBY/M, who's parked in a layby somewhere above Wolverley with his hand held on low power into a rubber duck. It's raining where Toby is, but warm and overcast where Dave is in Weston, and the sun's just gone in. Toby's going to the co in a minute, or maybe he'll get some fish and chips. Dave's just bought a speaker mike for the handheld he uses in the car, and that's what Toby is using. Toby's thinking of getting an 18 inch rubber duck for his rig. He can hear another repeater in the background on KD's channel, but his Morse is too rusty to decipher the callsign.
John M1AUN joins in, and says GB3DX is showing up in the Echolink list with the wrong timestamp, and suggests that might be why it's not connectible. He's having problems with Echolink and his router. Marigold makes a few suggestions.
Kuith then mocks Marigold about the plant pot on the roof of her car, saying it is a disguise aerial. Marigold explains that it's the only way she can keep the slugs off the plant. Kuith suggests putting a ring of salt around the plants, but Marigold said the slugs just wait till it rains, then laugh all the way to the food!
Kuith says Marigold and the slugs are too clever for him, and suggests she develop a liking for escargot and eat the buggers. She says snails maybe, but she doesn't fancy slug meat. Then she says Kuith's probably been eating slug meat in all those McDonalds! Kuith doesn't find that a savoury thought. Marigold says "Good, is wasn't meant to be!" we all have his best interests at heart.
Mike G4FHQ from Bromyard calls at 11:53, and is answered by a ravenous Jim G3ZQQ who's drooling over his toaster. He says it will be just a quickie until the toast pops out, then he's going to devour it while it's hot. As he says this, the toast pops out, and Jim signs off, followed by Mike.
Will 2E0GYZ calls at 13:18 and is answered by Jim G3ZQQ/M who's cycling down the towpath from Cookley to Kidderminster. They discuss McDonalds and the weather. Jim says there was a lot of mist around when he went out at 7:30am.
In the evening, Marigold Mobile calls on her way to Worcester, and is answered by Toby. They chat for a few minutes, and are joined by The Vicar Mobile, who's on his way to The Broadway in Stourbridge for fish and chips! Marigold asks if it's really necessary to go all that way and burn all that diesel, just for fish and chips? Surely there must be a good chippy somewhere in Kiddy, e.g. the one at Catchems End?
Monsieur Jerry had been Jetskiing! His fingers, toes and lips were still blue when he went to bed, and his doctor wasn't impressed. Jerry likes his extreme sports! He says there's a sign saying "Welcome to Ontario, the only place you can marry a fag but not smoke one!". Toby says "It must sound funny to you whan I talk about lighting up a fag!"