The Parachute Training School.

Well that was a nice little break. I would have liked just a little bit longer, but I have been getting pleading emails for me to come back, and, well, you know me by now, I hate to think of any of you suffering. Also there may just have been in the back of my paranoid mind, a tiny element of wanting to know how much you love me, about the whole thing. I am not prepared though to admit that outright.

But all that aside, my short blogging break was not spent idly. Oh no. I have been busy indeed, and having a very exciting time.


This is my new shirt. Can you see what the badge is? Yes that's right the Parachute Training School. The Number One Parachute Training School. Brize Norton is where the Parachute Regiment do their training. Very elite. About a hundred miles from where I live. Not too far for me to travel.

I am so pleased I went ahead with my breast enlargement operation. The results speak for themselves. 

These shirts are not given away lightly. They have to be earned. The winged parachute is a proud badge, and I will wear it proudly.

What you have to do is ten, yes ten, parachute jumps, over the course of five days. Not only that but four of these jumps are free fall. If you open the 'chute too soon, that is a fail, and no badge. Also you have to try and stay on your feet as you land. Really difficult, and scary stuff. But of course the instructors are experts at what they do, and soon weed out those not cut out for it.

I really need to work on losing my fat gut too.

That is why dear friends I shall feel so proud to wear the shirt in public. People shall look at me wearing it, and think: "Wow, what an action man!"

Apart from getting this great shirt, what else have I been up to? Well my roof repairs are in hand, thank goodness. Although the rain, the flipping incessant rain, the bloody rain, the wet rain, keeps stopping me from completing that job. But I am quietly confident that my repairs will finally solve the leak problems.

I have still got a bit of work to do inside the wagon as well, but I am getting there slowly. The leaking roof does hinder a bit in this respect.

My extremely handsome son George and I, with Sadie the German Shepherd, have been on a few nature walks, when the weather has permitted. I love to spend time with my boy. We found an Orchid on one of our walks. Such a sense of achievement.

Oh yes, and I went to a car boot sale. I love car boot sales. Some good bargains to be had. I was looking for some material to make curtains, but no luck in that respect.

However it was not a complete waste of time, because that is where I got the shirt from. The shirt with the Parachute Training School badge. A wonderful find!

What? Oh come on now! I never implied any such thing! You didn't really think I'd been hurling myself out of aircraft, did you? At my age!

It's good to be back!