Al, talking to Shula, regarding a phone conversation…
He rather thought Mrs Whatever, “liked the cut of Anisha’s rig.”
I don’t recall either Al or Shula having any history of messing about in boats. So where did that phrase come from? It sounded so foreign. 
Maybe they’ve been pigging-out on a boxed set of Howard’s Way?
Wasn’t it her jib? Even worse, I think.
I thought DullAl said ‘jib’ - and 'liking/not the cut of [someone]‘s jib’ is a phrase in pretty common use. My mother has seldom messed about in boats although she has messed pretty massively in them (poor love got terribly queasy round the Norwegian coast and then they presented her with an egg which was, she assures me, basically a shell full of warm water, and whoosh, there it all went, how lovely for all concerned) and it is a phrase she uses quite often. Usually, but not invariably, in the ‘not liking’ form.
I was listening to the radio playing in the next room and wasn’t sure whether it was rig or jib, so I’m happy to take your word for it, Fishy.
I hope we’re not about to have a Cap’n Birdseye character washed up the Am. 
Argh!
So long as he doesn’t make a play for Peggy as Captain Pugwash did.
He’ll be bringing in a boat load of refugees, who will of course all become essential darlings of the village in weeks…Even though it means Emma’s chance of one of the new houses, is gone for a bowl of chalk.