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[Genem]

^^^ Pah. We had a Vampire jet fighter as a "Gate Guard".

...and an hour a month through the spring/summer flying Chipmunk trainers. Then the Defence Cuts started :-(

( The clever bit was to join the RAF side of the Combined Cadet Force, we got the flying training, the glider pilot courses....AND the range weekends and blank-firing exercises :-)  )

[Sunny Jim]

The RAF bit only had an autogiro that didn't fly!

I was in the venture scout group that did far more interesting things like going off in my and a friends Series 2 Land Rovers for camping, canoeing etc weekends.

The attached was taken near Monmouth in October 1979 with our rickety canoe trailer where the ropes held it up! By this time I had repaired the wiring loom and had got the heater blanked off!

Note that the Land Rover was still green at this time.

Sunny Jim

[Growler]

The C.C.F. was the only thing I enjoyed at my school. We used to go to camp at Catterick and also Salisbury Plain where we got ferried around in Land Rovers and 3 ton trucks. The Corps as we called it wore Duke of Wellingtons cap badges.

[Ndrwdz]

Sort of - A Bodger works with green wood. Green wood is not seasoned so was then started to be seen as not as good an end product.

In next week's Countryfile Matt Baker learns the ancient art of bodging...

Andrew