Roger that !!

I always knew I had a face for radio and finally I've proved it. I've been let loose on the airwaves. Since returning from Jungle Camp I have been stuck back at field base and I am now on the radio rota. I have to do a 24-hour slot living in the lovely room pictured below and saying things like "Roger that Alpha One" and "Delta, Bravo Fluffy Bunny" (or something like that!) - I'm VERY important!!!

Just to the back of the piccie is a shabby old bed with a thread-bare mozzie net, all of which is positioned under the broken window that opens out on to the sewage pipe. Without air con the room has an average temperature of a Swedish sauna so with my eye mask and face mask securely in place I look a bit like I'm wearing a burkha going to bed (and a very sweaty one at that!)

I've had to draw the line at wearing my ear plugs to bed just in case a real emergency does kick-off in the middle of the night and I'm oblivious to the fire station bell ringing it's little heart out above my head!

The other lady in the piccie that I would like to introduce you to is the lovely Dr. Susan who is the most unlikely doctor in the world - she's absolutely fab! I've got a secret suspicion that she probably bought her medical degree off the Internet as she's even more ditsy than me. The poor girl has to spend endless hours in the radio room listening to spotty prepubescent teenagers calling up to tell her all about their puss seeping rashes on their private parts (hence the permanent radio room expression on her face!)

I'm on duty tonight so it's time to start brushing up on the phonetic alphabet again. I can remember Alpha, Bravo, Charlie but then I get a bit lost and have been known to say D for Dinner and E for Ebay !!!!!!

Nose pegs at the ready
Vic xxx