Today was mostly spent in Colchester at the Army Day organised by none other than the British Army (with a little help from our friend Howard Giles in Eventplan). Apart from a late start here (because Alexander was a bit restless during the night and didn't properly get to sleep until after 01:00 and then we all slept a bit longer) and the hour spent going through the middle of Colchester to get into the event it wasn't a bad day. What was very good was catching up with a number of people and just hanging about in the shade under the trees. We didn't make it for the battle at noon because of the traffic, so all we had was the drill display in the mid afternoon and the finale where the massed bands (Army Air Corps, Parachute Regt,…
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