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.................................................................................................................................The next Fandance is Sat 18th May 2024......................................................................................................................
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Having taken into account the current COVID restrictions that currently apply in the different parts of the UK, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 reunion.
The Chairman Nick Butler will be heading up the Fan at 0930 hrs on Saturday the 15th May and he will lay a BAFC wreath on behalf of the Club at the summit.
He will also toast The Fallen.
If other members wish to make their own pilgrimage up the Fan at their own risk please follow the relevant COVID restrictions that will be in place.
As a Club we are not able to accept liability for members safety and well being over the weekend of 14/15 May. Our Clubs insurance that normally covers Fandance will not operate this year.
Update to follow reference Aldershot 10 Miler on the 20th November 2021.
.........................................................................................................................The 10 Miler will be held on w/e Saturday 23rd November 2024........................................................................................
January 1967 up early headed for Kenya, put my mug under the urn out it came as black as pitch. Cook was pissed from the night before and said I've put two cans of milk in there, he wasn't lying he'd just failed to puncture them !
Mick Matthews nicked about 40 of them in Stanley,when I only asked for a couple.We lived like kings for the next few days,and then left them stacked in the front room of the bungalow.The owner is probably still eating those square white sausages and tinned salmon to this day,and making tea with those doss bag sized teabags they contained.
If you could get your hands on them the 10 man ration packs were best.
Do you remember in Osnatraz Tug that one day a week,monday I think,stuff from 10 mans was served in the cookhouse.This was to reduce the war stocks of rations we were told.I always liked the sausages so it was no problem to me,but most of the blokes chuntered like f.ck about it.Far worse I always thought was the RAOC baked bread,which always arrived stale and crumbly.After many complaints they started delivering it in white greaseproof wrappers as usual,but with the day on it in large red letters.It was still crap,and we always wondered about the fact that it said MONDAY,but no date,so you never knew which monday it had been baked.
I do remember a couple of the lads mentioning it to me Pat, using the most eloquent of language as they do!!! I was not subjected to that regime "living out" as I did. I see you survived though mate as did the rest of the Battalion.
God made Para's to give Marines someone to look up to and worship.
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