Greetings fellow Clubbies. If you know the original of this verse and you were a calendar-watcher like me, you knew that we were now two-thirds of the way through our Cadet year and that counting down the days to Grad…
August - red and blues Having been raised in an Anzac country, I've never been able to resist images of poppies, so when I read that the birthday flowers for August are the poppy and gladiolus, I went looking. Other…
RF Cadet Birthday get-togethers The Dickson Crest and the RF Cadet flag have been very visible over the last week as Clubbies celebrated the School's birthday (15 July, 1948). Photos and reports flooded in from Wanganui, SE QLD, Nelson-Tasman-Marlborough, Wellington (Porirua),…
Greetings fellow Clubbies Happy RF Cadet School 72nd birthday anniversary month - the School was formally established on 15 July 1948! 'A Favoured Few' records that that "for most of the new recruits their new life started a few days…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. Well here we are, nearly halfway through 2020 but who knows how far through the Covid 19 pandemic. The good news is that we can start bending our arms in the company of others again, so if you…
Greetings fellow cubbies. I hope you have come to terms with your Covid 19 lockdown days and haven't gone completely stir crazy. At the moment I feel its a little bit like waiting for that first long leave break to…
Covid 19 Lockdown While this might be one of the longest periods of detention that most of us have had to endure, we know that Clubbies will be doing their bit to make it work for everyone. As Greg Hill…
April Then and Now As we start into April and head towards week three of NZ's Alert Level 4 in the Covid 19 pandemic, there has been plenty of facebook chatter (and humour) comparing our current situation with what it…
Fellow Clubbies These are times more akin to war than peace at home. I have seen on our Facebook page how we, as ex Cadets, are reacting to the quickly changing battle front – with good humour, with encouragement to…
March Hare month According to one dictionary, a "March hare" is "a brown hare in the breeding season, noted for its leaping, boxing, and chasing in circles". I'm not sure many Clubbies were into breeding (well, not in Waiouru) but…