tent problem - impending polyester horribleness!

Yeah, that would've been me .

I've not got anything spare, however if you get desperate you're welcome to top and tail it in my tent. I've not seen one before though so I don't know if they're a 'true' two man size wise?

I didn't know if we'd expect to get that much sleep on the Saturday anyway?

I have a spair if you want to borrow one, but I will need to know asap so I can sort transport for you.

well mine is just a blue dome tent...its only to sleep in you can always pretend its old!

Thanks Gliderrider, I'll take you up on that. I'll be arriving on site on Saturday morning so I'll get it of you then, if that's okay.

Cheers

CHThree

Apparently my tent is 2 man.

Modern tents will be separate from the period tents.

yeah away from smelly snoring men

We having a campfire in the evening after play, to regail tales of the day and generally shoot crap? (not literally.... rifles not allowed in the latrine)

oh hahahaha so funny matthew - no where did i put my medal box, cos that deserves one

We having a campfire in the evening after play, to regail tales of the day and generally shoot crap? (not literally.... rifles not allowed in the latrine)

Funny, we're just discussing that in the organiser section.

Yes, in the Allied camp a full reflector fire will be built, but we discourage lots of personal fires for safety's sake.

Yeah, there's no fun in lots of little fires, be cool to have a communal fire, with fellen logs around it, twigs with marshmallows on the end

R&R

in regards to your comunial fire,

ive re posted my squadron smokerr story, it should give you all some ideas for campfire games

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Another favorite was a squadron smoker,

midway through an exercise, a maintanence day would be called,
drivers did maintanence, all other crew members collected wood.

a huge bonfire would be built, and enough wood stockpiled to burn it all nightlong.

as soon as darkness fell , the bonfire would be lit and everyone would then get bladdered, tell jokes , and sing dirty songs, then there would be a fight between liverpool and manchester fans, and BURY FCs only supporter would gob off and get filled in by both sides.

then came the OIL GAME,

a tree , at least 12 inches thick, Which was usally felled with axes, illegally, and by drunken soldiers.

the aforementioned tree would be propped accross the fire on oil drums , forming a bridge. men then showed how brave they were by walking over the bridge, with a 25 litre drum of oil, on their shoulder with the bung removed.

it starts with gearbox oil, a slow burn, and progresses through engine oil, stearing/brake oil, gun oil and then hydraulic oil, Very nice cracklle, and the idea is NOT to run as the flames flare up behind you.

the more pissed people got the sillier the oil used and the bigger the flames. it usually ended up wuth poeple sprinting over the log with a can of diesel/petrol, and all sorts of concoctions mixed from the oil cans.

every man had a halon extinguisher,(each tank had 5) the 1 shot throw away type, and anyone who "SMOKED", or even caught light, was ambushed at the end of the log, and frozen half to death by over enthusiastic squadies.

lots of reports the next day on accidental discharge of extingushers, and a massive demand order for replacement oils

Bury FC arent half as bad as some people think...

it wasnt a dig at bury FC, just the only fan of them in the unit.

this was back in 1991, i dont know how well they were doing, i have never followed football, to me its like watching paint dry , whilst haveing my eyeballs sandblasted

im a bury lass and i was 6 in 1991!!

lol im old enough to be your dad

actually no im not i 5 years too young

had a fright for a minuite then

you certainly know how to charm the ladies tony.
"Fuck Off Granny Im a squadie" and "I'm old enough to be your dad" anymore chat up lines for us mere mortals?