The 99th Garrison supports Dreamflight's
"Its a Knock out/"Family Fun Day, 2nd June, 2013
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| With the Dolphin Group |
The 99th Garrison was asked by Malcolm Smith
[The group Leader for Dreamflight’s Simpsons group] to support Dreamflight at
an “It’s a Knock Out” style Family Fun Day at the British Airways Concorde Club
in Middlesex on Sunday, 2nd June, 2013. This we duly
did, supported by our good friends and fellow troopers from the MK Garrison.
As this was an event in Middlesex and it was also Malcolm’s
birthday with a little bit of a do at the Concorde Club the night before, a
weekend was made of the event with a stay at a Travelodge near to Heathrow and
about a fifteen to twenty minute walk from the venue. The “do” went
very well and lots of birthday drinks were had by all with all thoughts
forgotten about what those who had agreed to do the next day as part of the
“knock out” contest. I think that it’s safe to say that one or two
people may have regretted drinking quite so much when they were throwing
themselves off and into the various obstacles that created the “Knock out”
course the following day.
At least we were able to have a bit of a lie in though as
the event did not start until 12 noon which meant that I did not have to be at
the venue until 11:00am. Once there I met up with Dan and then Greg
and Darren from the MKG and then also with Jeff, Michaela and Kayleigh from the 99th.
We had a stars changing room with large mirrors etc as our
base for the day and quickly got ready before going outside. The
event was quite big really with about thirteen teams taking place in the “It’s
a knock out” such as the Micky Mouse Group, The Dolphin Group, The Pirate
Group, The Tiggers, the Scoobies and the Peter Pan Group. There was
also a team from the Army who subsequently went on to win the
contest. I was in the relative safety of my Scout armour so did not
take part in the Contest but from watching it, it seemed like hard work but
good fun and also that it was inevitable that you were going to get very, very
wet!!
It was a lovely event at which everyone seemed happy and out
for a good time…. I think that the weather helped. … There was a really good
atmosphere. We were very popular with the children who were all really well
behaved and polite [and the adults weren’t too bad eitherJ] and were kept quite
busy for most of the time posing for photographs etc.
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We were not collecting at this event as we were part of the
entertainment but we did get to have our photograph taken with “Aunty
Pat” - Patricia Pearce MBE, co-founder of Dreamflight all those
years ago [27 or 28].
It was lovely to see members of the Pirate and Dolphin
Groups again that I have previously been on the Dreamflight trip with but also
quite sad to think that I won’t be going with them on this year’s trip. Just in
case you don’t know what Dreamflight is about you need to check their website
at www.dreamflight.org but
if you follow my blogs then you ought to know by now!
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| With the Mice! |
The fun day finished at 4:00pm so we de-kitted at that point
and had the obligatory post troop photo before I had a quick bite to eat at a
local pub and then driving home, arriving there at about 9:00pm.
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| Sweets Galore!! |
Huge thanks go to the guys from the MKG for supporting the
99th at this event – Dan, Greg and Darren and to Jeff, Michaela
and Kayleigh from the 99th. It was a great day and one
that I will always associate with seeing Kayleigh sing…. she was really
good! So good that she got her mum crying which then made me cry as
a result!
