Bentley, Hi,
I regret that my time at Waterbeach was all too short and that I did not make the acquaintance of the said “Twinkle Toes”. I avoided the Queen’s Birthday Station Parade (sleeping off nights!). I was quietly minding my way to the NAAFI when I got clobbered for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Birthday Parade. Luckily, I’d been at Square Bashing (Hednesford) with a bloke who was now in Stores. He had (being in receipt of a few beers) furnished me with a number of Uniform Deficiency Chits. Deficient 1 x Rifle Sling meant you couldn’t possibly go on Parades!! The SWO and the Discip Sgt were out for me. Two days later I was summoned to SHQ where informed that I was going to El Adem for the last 18 months of my National Service. Those 18 months were, variously, the most boring, exciting, interesting, etc, etc, of my Nat Svc career. I could fill a book but it would only bore 99.736% of this Forum’s readers/correspondents.
Good days
HTH
Resmoroh