Choppers Eve is like Christmas Eve for offshore workers. It's the day immediately prior to crew-change day which every two weeks is celebrated with a helicopter flight, possibly a fixed-wing to Aberdeen and subsequent beverages at either Aichies at the Station or Spiders Web in Dyce
The weekend's upon us, but I'm still 2 days away from choppers eve :(
This is 3 days before Christmas Day, the 22nd of December, and your last chance of doing any worthwhile christmas shopping before the last minute crowds become suffocating
"right, I've got to do some christmas eveeveeve shopping before town gets too busy"