Don't take offence at our propensity for giving nicknames
And absolutely none taken at any time, Grusome, by someone who thoroughly enjoyed two very happy years of exchange service with the RAN. I'm only glad that I provoked such a detailed reply, not least at the extraordinary situation revealed in the penultimate paragraph of your post, and Tankertrashnav is also clearly grateful.
Curiously enough, it reminds me how cross some of us in dark blue were when the Naval GSM 1915 was superseded by the GSM 1962, which bears a very close ressemblance to the junior services' previous GSM, right in the middle of Confrontasi!
Jack
PS Purely on the chocolate front, I suspect many of our lot would prefer a simple CDM to the rather sickly VCB .....
