On getting home last night, my bag contained the following:

- Medals: One Queens Diamond Jubilee, one NATO ISAF*
- Computer hardware: 2 x 1T hard drive, 1 x 160G hard drive, one Intel network card, micro USB cable
- Tools etc: Leatherman Wave and Gerber Artifact, Gerber torch, mini-LED torch
- Books etc: Collapse, my Kindle, a folder and notebook ( Read more... )

I've been cycling madly to work for the last couple of months. It's 22.5km from home to work, so I'm cycling 45km daily - usually 4 days a week, because Monday is Game Night and I don't feel like cycling home at 23h00. Following my reasonable time in the half-marathon, I thought my running time would have improved massively. I'm not running a great ( Read more... )

While my zombie apocalypse plans are fully developed, I was not adequately prepared for a puncture while cycling home last night ( Read more... )

Indeed, after many years as a subaltern I have been elevated to the dizzy heights of Captain! I was gazetted on the 1st of April (I'm assured that this is not an April Fool's joke) and must now send my uniforms to the tailor to have the appropriate ranks added. I'll also have to buy several rank badges for my field uniform ( Read more... )

The questions I had on Friday night were, "Where am I going on my exchange visit with the US National Guard?" and "What time will I achieve on my first half-marathon?"

Answer 1: Wisconsin! starmadeshadow, I'm not sure how far Fort McCoy is from your university ... maybe I'll have a chance to drop by. Funnily enough, I'm not working with native Wisconsinites - I'm ( Read more... )

Saturday was Doljanchi for V; her first birthday, where she has an array of things on a table and whatever she chooses corresponds to her future life. She chose a book, thread and pencil (in that order); first and last indicate that she will be a scholar or academic, and the thread indicates long life. Yay V! I've got it all on video (including her ( Read more... )

(Someone must really have stretched to come up with that name)

The TA is contributing people to the Olympics, and I may be one of them! However, senior MoD planning being what it is, I don't yet know when I'm mobilising, where I'll be based or what I'll be doing. It's ok, guys, you've only had seven years to work this out.

Army news

BBC news ( Read more... )

Yeah take a look at this little girl, with her low-riding trousers. Aw yiss.

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This is a more recent video - the last one is a few weeks old, while this one is from Friday.

This last weekend was the annual Regimental shooting competition, which is more fun than a barrel of monkeys with guns. Actually, it's remarkably similar in atmosphere and outcome to a barrel of monkeys with guns, with a bit more focus on safety ( Read more... )

I frequently think these days that as soon as I finish X, I'll be able to relax a bit, and think ahead. Many many events have I labelled X, and they have passed by with varying degrees of success, but there's always another X looming a few days away on the calendar ( Read more... )