Half-way through the install/commissioning phase of the assignment Dave. So I'll be back enjoying the cheap entertainment in the "
Nasty Hotel - Port Harcourt" in around 9 days from now.
The really funny thing about it here is:-
Every time a certain rampant racist enters the Control Room on this Production Platform to check the status of the production equipnment, around eight or nine Nigerians get up off their seats, begin some kind of sychronised war dance - and start singing that brilliant old AWB song;
"PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC
WHITE BOY"
"PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC RIGHT"
"PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC
WHITE BOY"
"LAY DOWN AND GROOVE IT, AND PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC TILL YOU DIE"
To general hilarity - as you'll imagine.
Oh, and their singing is quite good actually.
Gonna teach them the K&C corporate song next......
Apparently the generally held opinion of the Heid is that cos he can make this equipment work properly in such an adverse climate then he must be somewhat of a past master at Voodoo, Black Magic, and such-like, and ought to be sitting in some Ju-Ju tree somewhere.
Hmmm....maybe they're right, but I draw the line at poking a bone through my nose so's I can look the part as well.
BTW, I have it on good authority from my "Man In The Pub" in Hong Kong that a Streets of Old Aberdeen range is being seriously considered - in the marbelled halls of K&C HQ.
H