"Im glad you can cook" , he said happily.
"Ive no eaten for a day or so, an Im so hungry I could eat the arse out of a low flyin duck I could".
"Now then, if'n ye dont stop ye demandin, Ill sew it on crooked, so mind yer mouth and hush fer a bit aye?"
He whistled as he sewed, a low gaelic dirge , that was entirely incongruous with the task at hand.