To all the mini owner's who are serving members of the ADF or those who are ex-service - hope you had a good day yesterday.

My headache has carried over to today.....


cheers.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Mick, you reckon your headache was bad

(Not that I am a member of the ADF but my band helped the day along)

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Rod
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Rodney/

Do the diggers march in Gulgong?
Did my arse at 2-up

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

While people were attending dawn service, I was trying to get some sleep from the night before

I went to the Mudgee march - about 50 genuine marchers with lots of NSA marchers and those wearing relative medals. We were led by a squadron of navy avionic techies from Nowra.

Followed by a nice roast meat luncheon in the Mudgee Soldiers Club, a couple too many schooners and I left for home at about the time the two up was becoming a rowdy non veteran affair. Its a day for all Australians not just us.

The worst thing was standing in formation around the cenotaph - it took for ages for all the wreaths to be laid. Us 60 year old start to feel it in the ankles , knees and lower back when we stand for an hour.

One last thing - lets all get rid of the hand over the heart business - its a showmanship thing adopted from the US. The proper Aust protocol is a salute if wearing a hat or the attention pose if not wearing a hat.

Can you please describe the attention pose?

willy
Genuinely not a clever thing to say

yes - its the fists clenched, arms tightly by the side, heels together and head slightly bowed in respect of those who dead or have died.

thankyou for clearing that up.
i now am slightly wiser.

and yes i know i shouldn't've been drinking, but it was a 'day off' the next day and i like to make the most of things so i did just that.

fists clenched, arms tightly by the side, with the thumbs pointing down the trouser seams to the shoes mate....

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"Show me the Mini!"

........concentrating on the roasting toes, pins and needles, sweat down your back and knowing you have missed a drill move and are now facing the wrong way to everyone else with your Chief watching.....

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Sorry - missed the thumbs down the seams toward the shoes. Presumed knowledge I guess.

It hurts more as you get older - I never thought it would but it does. Nothing like being in the service and on parade mid summer. Several faint and fall and the platoon sargeant hisses "step over them and pick them up after we dismiss.

My mums brother lives in Mudgee, I don't know if he still marches. He is not the bloke he once was.
I remember when he went over although I was just a kid, he was a young happy country bloke.
He flew out in the middle of the day in a Qantas 707.
He flew home in the middle of the night in a RAAF C130.
Just about says it all.

A very quiet and similar return will be had for the current fellows I think, not so much ours but for our US compatriots.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.