Greetings Fellow Clubbies. Welcome to the 24th As You Were! monthly blog post. Shout yourself a glass of whatever takes your fancy as you read this. Aren't these wondrous times we live in? We are about to become traffic-lighted but,…
Greetings one and all. Apologies for this post being late for place of parade - excuses include Covid 19 (not sure how exactly, but everything seems too take much longer), getting the house ready to put on the market, working…
Greetings Clubbies. My commiserations for those in Auckland who are still locked down at level 3 - at least you can now get takeaways. Mentioning takeaways reminds me of cadet and Army days in Waiouru. As cadets we were always…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. I hope you are all weathering the latest lockdown well. My commiserations to those in Auckland and Northland for your longer stay in Level 4 and I hope that the daily case numbers start tracking down soon.…
Dear Clubbies - Happy RF Cadet School Birthday for the 15th July - the date the School was officially formed in 1948. (Quite an auspicious year, really - the same year I was born!) The first Class to march-in at…
Greetings Fellow Clubbies and happy RF Cadet School birthday on 15 July - don't forget to celebrate! I hope you are still enjoying the Black Caps’ fantastic win and perhaps not so much that we are halfway through 2021. The…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. I trust you are hunkering down with whatever takes your fancy as we head into winter's wet and colder weather. This edition of the blog pays tribute to Patrick Nolan, who many will know became a Yeoman…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. It was good to have had an ANZAC day which was able to be commemorated in the way we traditionally have, after last year’s COVID-affected events. Looking at our Facebook group site, I could see that we…
Greetings. I was reading a news feed the other day and the following headline caught my eye: "Old boys return to St Stephen's School at Bombay for cleanup towards reopening." St Stephen's sadly closed its doors in 2000 following hard…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. Well, it's February already and as I look around the world I feel gratitude - despite the yo-yoing of NZ Covid lock-downs - that I live in Godzone, where insurrections don't happen and where we don't, as…