Shadow Beast

Oh God!! Lord help your lads when you take over the troop:D Richie

There is some very good points raised there. richie

Water pistol and shoot him every time he jumps up on the surface, get one of the huge super soaker ones. I have one by the bed for when ours used to climb the curtains, was great at night shooting her! only need do it a few times and the threat is normaly enough. richie

all round good guy then. Richie

This years rememberence parade will be my first out the army, i will be going back to my old regiment to have the parade there. Back when Iraq kicked off we lost 2 good guys out there and for a few years afterwards we always did something on the anniversey of there deaths, normally a lads v Snco's football match. But this year they have decided that because we dont do it for the guys that we lost in other areas of operations, bosnia, falklands and others, there only needs to be one day that we remember them and that day is the 11th of November. There does not need to be a public day off, what will it achieve? sweet FA is what. just gives people like the others have said above another day off. richie

jen has now decided not to park there anymore and go and find another place, fingers crossed it wont have any supporting colums, cars, walls or anything else that cant be moved! richie

Had a friend of ours round tonight who owns a body shop, it goes in next monday when we are away on hols, £175 all in which i did not think was to bad. Richie

thing is, she also hit the massive supporting colums that hold up asda in rushden when we used to have the mx-5, she has not learnt!

She lets me use it some times, at least now i have some ammo against her if i am ever in the wrong, which is not normally that often!! richie

No she even managed to get that aswell!

Thing is as much as i love the car it is actually Jens so to be honest as long as i do not foot any bill torwards this then all will be fine, Richie

:(Ok here we go, please see the attached photos of what greeted me tonight when i arrived home from looking at a job. I got a tearful phone call from Jen saying "where are you? a wall has attacked my car" I was 4 doors up the road with the neighbour, and had to leave her house quickly to come running to the wifes aid. Bascially, Jen has yet to work out the turning radius of the supra and the width of the gap that she is trying to get down. The finger marks that you can see are from jen trying to wipe the scratches off so i did not notice it! Richie Oh the chrome lip got in on the action aswell!! Dont think that can be fixed though can it?

i recorded it and have just finished watching it, was well documented, i shall look forward to the next few. A load of my mates flew out there yesterday for a 3 month stint so i hope all goes well for them out there, the other lads went in october, fingers crossed they all come home. We have had a few injured already. richie

the orignal is channel 4 if anyone intrested, not a lot else on richie

Dalton?

we ought to organise another meet in feb now there is a few of us around, maybe bowling or something. richie

just got back from watching it, its ok but nothing to write home about. richie

[Regardless, I'm going out on Sunday with a guy who has a Rapid topped with infra red night vision scope, a FAC rated BSA super ten, a .22rf semi automatic ruger, .17 savage and a 12g o/u lamber shotgun!!! He's only bringing the rapid and BSA but that'll do to have a go with. He's also got access to 1200 acres of land in various places, and lives 5 minutes from my house!!! Good bloke to get to know really. Brilliant rifle, that is what i shoot, all of us that go out have these in various forms from .20 up to .25 you will be impressed with his weapon:d

Does this mean then that we now have another person to join the 3 of us at the next bowling meet????? Yippeeeee! richie

Me and jen brought one for her dad at christmas so he can look at the fit bird that lives next door, sorry the moon and stars!1 We got it from lidels (Sp) cheap food shop. it cost us 60 quid and came with 3 different lenses for stars, moon and people!! loads of stuff for the computer as well. he says its good, might be wroth a look to see if they are still selling them. richie

thats them, girl in the car aswell, very chavish!

if it is the guy i am thinking of, he lives in rushden along park road. i have stopped and chatted to him along the high street, he is not on here but was going to look into joining. richie

if i can just join in on this one, i own a theoben rapid 7 air rifle, have been shooting now for the best part of 22 years, most fridays 3-4 of us meet up at a farm to help with rabbit control. The rifles we use range from 45 ft/lbs right up to 65 ft/lbs and there all air rifles, they are in various calibres from .177 through to .25. If you are going to do this professionally, then get the right rifle for the job, as the others have said, there is nothing worse than hearing a wounded rabbit scream, we always try to go for head shots, and if we cant get it then we wont take the shot. As for butchers, thet are not really bothered about taking them from you, however the farmer might for his dogs, ours does and i have a few for my 2. how are you going to get round the fields? if walking then you got to think about carring stuff, are you going to do it at night? if so your going to need a red lamp, its going to cost you more than 100 quid to do it right. if you have not shot before i suggest you target practise till you are confident with the gun and things like acting against you like wind. sorry for the long reply but if you are wanting to enjoy the sport, set yourself up right from the start, and welcome to the world of field shooting richie

Sharks, massive fear of them, wont go swimming in the sea when abroad. richie

You have hit the nail on the head there mate, having been a senior since 2004 i have had my fair share of run ins with young officers, they have it drilled into them at college that they are in charge and that they must lead the troop, and its all crap. How can someone that has been in the forces 6 months tops, lead 30 guys over some one that has 15 years service. If i can give you any advice greg it is what has been said above, listen to your seniors, do what they tell you, dont question them and you will get on fine. Oh turn up at the first troop do with 3 crates of beer and that will have you in there good books!! richie.