Originally Posted by
Gainesy
Blagging a "gash call" home at Christmas from Akrotiri through Turkey, Italy, and numerous Nato and RAFG switchboards to within a few miles of home. Then some old cow at Bawtry PBX binned it.

After RAFG got serious and banned none "service" calls to the UK, it was found one could still chat to ones mates by putting the call through via Hong Kong