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Hmmmm...

It is looking all a bit damp at the mo...

Vonny wrote:

cj wrote:

Vonny wrote:

Macintosh and galoshes, Vonny.

Yeah right

I'm getting prepared to meet a man in a mac in the woods. I note we are encouraged to bring a camera to record the exciting moments of the day..



Munch

Angela Woodford wrote:

Vonny wrote:

cj wrote: Macintosh and galoshes, Vonny.

Yeah right

I'm getting prepared to meet a man in a mac in the woods. I note we are encouraged to bring a camera to record the exciting moments of the day..



Munch

Not only a man in the woods, Munch, but one you have met through the Internet, what could be more suspicious than that?

Katharine wrote: Not only a man in the woods, Munch, but one you have met through the Internet, what could be more suspicious than that?

You're absolutely right, Katharine!

I've never done this before, but understand that the best thing is - always tell someone where and when you are going!

I'll be sure to recognise him from the standard man lurking in the woods, if he's wearing galoshes as well?

Ooh, excited!

Munch

Won't be me.

I don't have a 'thing' about galoshes !

Angela Woodford wrote:

Vonny wrote:

cj wrote: Macintosh and galoshes, Vonny.

Yeah right

I'm getting prepared to meet a man in a mac in the woods. I note we are encouraged to bring a camera to record the exciting moments of the day..



Munch

Calm down Angela!
Maggie

midget wrote:Calm down Angela!
Maggie

Quite right, Maggie. I must save my excitement for the Rifle Range. Kapow! Someone at work has told me various hints about which is my dominant eye? Kapow!

Love, Munch

hmmm .... I've been put on a rota which requires me to be in the rifle range from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. This is something of an irony. As I have said elsewhere on the forum, this was not one of my favourite places at CH.

Each year, we had to go to the rifle range for "classification" - all part of the CCF or "corps" which was then a compulsory activity for UF and above every Thursday afternoon. One lay down (about 5 cadets at a time) and pointed the rifle at the other end of the range; every so often a target popped up. It stayed up for a couple of seconds and then disappeared. To the day I left, I swear I never discovered where the target appeared, but rather than just lie there without shooting (which would have earned certain and immediate retribution), my strategy was to pull the trigger when everybody else did.

Of course, I never actually hit my own target, but I was discoivered when it became clear that the guy next to me had somehow obtained 6 holes in his target out of 5 shots - I got a very painful army boot applied with some force to my transom for my pains.

Perhaps on Sunday, I will be allowed to examine the mechanism, if it is still in place after 51 years.

DavebytheSea wrote:Perhaps on Sunday, I will be allowed to examine the mechanism, if it is still in place after 51 years.

Not anymore, there was a new arrangment in the '70s, but that has gone as well now.

The shooting range is one of the very few places at CH that I have never been to...

Aye. Where is it?

Eruresto wrote:Aye. Where is it?

Between Peele and the tennis courts

Oh yes....

*feels silly*

No, in my defence I thought you meant the clay pigeon range. I know all about the CCF activities, which is surprising since all I really do is give the RAF (a scout's best friend!) a nice smart salute and stare at Jonny Vaughan.

Eruresto wrote: ..... all I really do is give the RAF (a scout's best friend!) a nice smart salute and stare at Jonny Vaughan.

Goodness!