During the trip one of the more senior members of the crew had been giving a rendition of a few lines of some of the bawdy songs written by the infamous comedy song writer Australian Kevin “Bloody “ Williams .Such prestigious titles include “Grandad’s got a boner, My Dick’s on the Dole and his favourite “Do ya fuck on first date
The crew had been discussing how we could get the later title into a conversation with a complete stranger. We initially thought that it may be possible to bring it into the general conversation with one of the Eastern European bar maids from Latvia at The Head of the River pub by Folly Bridge, but they all looked cold and stoney faced just like their fatherland.
Opportunity presented itself later in the evening, when we heard an Australian drawl. Jimmy surveyed his target, and without any hesitation, walked straight up to this guy and said” Are you from down under? “,”Yes mate came the reply” to which Jimmy said” Do ya “ and was pleasantly relieved when the guy beat him to it and said ” Fuck on first date . Yes, sorry but I’ve already got a date tonight mate”. Great laughter ensued. We were then introduced to Bruce’s two other mates and the evening continued with even more beers and ribaldry. It turned out that the Aussies were here on a conference being held at Harwell to do with some aspect of water, and so Phil was then up to his chin discussing water based topics.
All in all the Aussies were good fun to be with and we saw them leaving the pub early in the morning, of course that hadn’t been drinking there all night, they had been staying there at their company’s expense, including their bar bill.
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