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[Mick Harper]

I trust you are going to let the rest of us into the secret.

[Boreades]

[Boreades]

Executive Memo

From : Head of TME facilities management team
To: All TME inmates

Effective immediately

With the release of a , our understanding from the legal beagles is that TME can now follow the Google model and base its European operational HQ wherever it damn well likes.

We appreciate this may come as a surprise to some, especially those who have (for tax reasons) become accustomed to a diet of Guinness and Potato, Fish 'n' Chips or Yorkshire Pudding with Curry Sauce. But M'Lady Boreades craves good Grave, proper pate and Chaource cheesy comestibles. We'll be shipping out to the new improved Chateau Boreades, to a place with space for more hens and less children, tout suite.

The good ship SS Boreades is being made ready to cast-off the mooring lines as we speak. We have a new navigation officer aboard, a Mr Leslie Philips. He assures us that to reach the best Grave growing region, it's just a case of heading for the Medoc and then left-hand down a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves_(wine_region)

From now on, it's gonna be French megaliths all the way baby! We'll try and keep the progress reports topical, with a pit stop near Carnac at Quiberon, to replenish the ship's rations of Breton beverages.

P.S. to the accounts department : we'll send the bills to the usual correspondence address in Knotting Hull.

[hvered]

The Wiki article says that Graves wine for export trade began with Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II. Eleanor came up elsewhere, to do with the rather mysterious Rolls d'Oleron navigation law code.

Follow the Rolls and bon voyage to you all.

[Mick Harper]

By coincidence, I have just sailed my own boat 'The Condor' over to the Channel Islands and back.

[Boreades]

[Boreades]

Good news chaps!

Part 1 - Ma wee cousin MacBoreades has reported that Glenborrydale castle is next door to a very fine producer of the uisce beatha.
http://www.adelphiselection.com/

Part 2 - I'm just negotiating an advance payment from a publisher for a new book :
50 Shades of Megaliths

Hopefully there will be plenty enough for the new Northern Château Boreades, with enough left over for a wee dram or two.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 3-75m.html

[Boreades]

[Mick Harper]

It is not heading for the Channel Islands, it is kept in the Channel Islands to keep it one step ahead of internet hackers. Computers are not allowed on Sark.

[Boreades]

It's more than a year I last asked where the TME Pension Fund had gone. I'm beginning to suspect the TME Police will need to start making some enquiries, or proceeding in an orderly direction ... mind how you go.

Meanwhile, it's been that time of year for the TMS Official Works Christmas Party. Thanks to Tisi, we'd still got a small stash of TME Social Funds that The Management hadn't got their sticky fingers on, or made it "disappear".

Being carefully pecunious, we'd opted for the Three-In-One package in a moving venue. Here's a pic we took earlier of the "moving venue" - it's one of the new solar-powered electric trams. We're just waiting for the sun to come out.



It's called the Three-In-One package because the same people tripled-up as Catering, Entertainment and Paramedics. Just as well, after trying an excess of the food and drink, we needed the paramedical aid.

We're still not sure how Harpo blagged his way in there as the Entertainments Officer. How we laughed when he told us that story about the English Language!