Modern Age Relic
Years back I had the dubious honour of living in Scaberdeen.

I and 3 student flatmates had just moved into a flat that being so unclean we (stupidly) volunteered to clean in exchange for getting 2 weeks rent free...but that is another story.

Now that place was the top floor of a Victorian mansion converted into flats.
In a tiny cupboard installed above the bathroom we found many interesting things.
A pair or soiled lady's knickers with "gentleman's stains" added...
An old cavalry sabre blade (no hilt just the blade)
A freakish looking "Gimli from the Lord of the Rings" style axe (that we later found was nicked from the walls of a local pub)
Hand written rules for IRA terrorist actions in the WWII game of Squad Leader (Love the game but the terrorist shit seemed to be based on real life)*


Now here is where I digress:
On oil and Gas production platforms in the North Sea there are often libraries of shitty books - all Andy McNab and dreadful scifi - not even the good ones - and most of these books have stamp in them just like a library back onshore "Property of X Library or X Platform"

But the one item that I still have (the others being divvied amongst my foul friends (not the scanties BTW)**)
is a crap SciFi novel that I have only read once with "Piper A" stamped on the pages...

It *is* a relic. I'd love to know when it left the installation, cos all that marks Piper A now is a buoy above the wreckage.


*The blokes who lived there before us were all from Ireland (dunno which part)
** The scanties were burnt and thrown from a window one summer night.

Cheers for reading there are many dubious tales of that flat - better left for another time.
(Albert_Memorial, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 21:22, 7 replies)

What's the title
of the book?
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 21:36, closed)

Ironic Really
Sorry I forgot to include it:
"Brightnes Falls from the Sky" by James Tiptree Jnr

Maybe I should get a photo of it.
(Albert_Memorial, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 21:51, closed)

...and right next to the buoy is the honking great
Piper B (Bravo) platform. Which cruelly has 86 steps down to the smoking room from the pipe deck, which was a bastard if you had to get back up quickly after a tab.
(Oil Slick, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 22:50, closed)

Yeah Ninian Central is a bit like that
Fortunately I'm now on a nice easy FPV with hardly any stairs -except the thousands I needed to climb once it was in Jarrow for the refit. - Walking. to. work? - what the hell is that! :)
(Albert_Memorial, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 10:44, closed)

oooh,
I got medevac'd from the Ninians with what turned out to be trapped wind, but I'll save that story for an appropriate QOTW. What's your line of work then?
(Oil Slick, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 18:10, closed)

Dangerous Goods
Nah, I'm a Chemist - well was an ad hoc type until a new contract came through, but now permanent rotation, thank fook. As it's been several years doing the phone call thing - I'm off out next week as it is - Broomfield-tastic!
(Albert_Memorial, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 19:54, closed)

Yay
Piper Alpha!
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 12:35, closed)