JHQ RAF Mess was excellent. Great entertainments: jazz curry lunches on Summer Sundays, super Oktoberfest, the usual Christmas and New Year,
Air Staff breakfast at knocking off day before Christmas, The cavalry charge on Fridays on bikes over the field down to the Mess.
Summer balls with survivors' breakfasts ............. nostalgia is not what it used to be.
Also great away games: a coach or two to the Clutch stations for their receptions, never a minute early, never a minute late.
And all this for a very average grammar school boy who had wanted never to be anything but RAF and failed the medicals.
I still have a lot of Mess silver, auctioned to members immediately before the dreadful merger with the army to become Churchill.
I still have the Weber and the lawnmower from the PX.
Golden days, and we who experienced them knew it. Many of us are sad to see the fruits of winning the cold war, squandered.
Thank you to those serving now.