All good things come to the right Bear!
After a busy trip to Northern Ireland I decided that I should join the ARRSE trip to Ypres.
Something went right for once and I was despatched a week early by BMG for some ‘beat up' training on the South East coast of England.
I arrived safely and was met by my Bearer and two lovely young researchers just in time for lunch at the local Oyster Bar.
Half a dozen oysters and a bottle of Pouilly Fume later it was time for a little siesta before the next bit of work.
I hope Slingsby gets to see the pictures of the lunch I had, which is probably a little better than the ‘Boil in the Bag' stuff he is probably on at the moment! He can keep his medals and flights in fast jets etc, I know which this Bear prefers!
Next day I went for a walk along the seafront at Deal. A really nice unspoilt old ‘Georgian' seaside town. Had a bracing walk along the pier and then posed for some piccies in the sunshine. Later this week I am off to do some more surprise training at a secret location - my Bearer won't tell me any more.
Things are looking good for the Braille for the next week or so (Hee Hee Hee).
Wait till I get hold of that Slingsby!
Things took a sudden turn for the worse mid week when I was taken to a secret research place somewhere in Southern England. I found to my horror that I had been ‘volunteered' as a ‘guinea bear' and had to test all the different types of fences for prisons and other secret type places. There's only so many fences a bear can climb in one day, and I had to do most of them. They kept the best one till last when I was tired; I wasn't happy to see that it was an electric fence! Beasts!
Still, I managed to disappoint them as bear fur is a good insulator and I was quickly over it, unlike one of the human volunteers who got a nasty shock (Hee Hee). As a reward for my hard work and endeavours I was taught a little bit about safe cracking, which may come in useful when I need to get access to WO2 Hamilcar's chocolate collection!
Apparently we leave for Ypres on Friday when I am looking forward to meeting up with WO2 HAMILCAR and MCpl AMY.
It can't come soon enough, as at least I know that Slingsby won't have any more nasty tricks up his sleeve for me there. More later.
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