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Tenderfoot
Nov 30, 2009
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Spalding
I am an ex Squaddie, retired Policeman who now brainwashes students at a local school into being happy and successful. I have watched Ray Mears and others on TV and decided it's about time I actually learned some of these skills and put them into practice.

All advice and help gratefully received. I can take a joke and do pay my round in the pub. :beerchug:

Nigel.
 
Welcome, my old man is about 2 years off retirement in GMP, he's a squaddie turned copper too ;)
welcome and enjoy, they're a frendly bunch on here and no question is too small or to silly to ask ;)
 
"who now brainwashes students at a local school into being happy and successful"

Guess no harm in giving them unrealistic expectations of real life!

Seriously though, welcome to the boards.

Firebringer
 
are you a real fenny ?
Nah. I emigrated from dahn sarf. I've only been in Spalding for thirty years. I moved Sunray Domestic and girls in the year before I left the Army. I do know a bit of the county from when I was on the firearms team though. I also ran the local ACF detachment for six years and took the lads and lasses into wild country. At school I help out with the D of E training for expeditions, as well as supervising & assessing them.

I have plenty of camping gear and have started "collecting" bushcraft stuff. I am treating myself to Stephen Cox knife that should arrive March/April time as he has a waiting list. My grandson looks as though he is going to be an outdoors type so I would like to be able to show him some skills that I will have to learn.

Thanks for the welcome folks.

Nigel.
 
Guess no harm in giving them unrealistic expectations of real life!
I look upon it as the opposite. I inform them that in real life there are losers as well as winners, then go on to explain where I originally went wrong in the hope that they learn from my mistakes. If they are interested, I will show them how to improve their chances of having what I consider to be a good life. I know that I have affected one or two over the four years I have been at the school and consider that a success as it could be one or two that may not have "got it" without my intervention. 36 youngsters went on a WW1 Battlefield trip in March. We stayed in Ypres and attended the service that is held at 20:00 every night. I wore a beret, my medals and Dad's & Granddad's medals. It is a very moving experience and one or two of the lads "got it" there too.

Nigel.
 

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