[G Griffin]

Walk in some beauty spot or a weekend away now seems like an absolute luxury.

**Swings Lantern and pulls up sandbag**  I once spent six months living in a tent in the desert.  No electric lights, no hot and cold running water, we shit in holes in the ground with no bushes to hide behind.  I did my No 2s in the dark otherwise while squatting, helicopters would fly low and buzz you, or your mates would throw stones at you.  Dark was much safer.

 We had to wash our own clothes in metal basins.  My sleeping bag wasn't washed or replaced once in six months.  The food the cooks made us was the only slop we ate, with the exception of the odd 'red cross parcel' sent from home.  Flippin' tortured by flies during the day and especially at meal times.

For sex I'd wait till Andy Palmer went on stag and I'd borrow a clean spare army sock from his bergen and have sex with that; carefully putting it back into his rucksack after I'd finished abusing it (he wasn't happy with me when I told him back in Germany).

But I remember getting back to my barracks in Germany; a real bed, electric lights, TVs, microwaves, flushing bogs, hot showers, washing machines, beer and women.  It really was like heaven.

You don't know what you've got until you lose it.

"You don't know what you've got until it's gone". Joni Mitchell?  (said in a West Bromwich accent, Barry Taylor, Auf Weidesehen, Pet).
Your version was more apt for you.

[H MAN]

Might want try this;

[Arnold Palmer]

https://www.facebook.com/30382852317/posts/10158319633262318/

[Richard iSparkle]

Chinese plague

i think you're being sarcastic or ironic but could you stop referring to it as this. it's pretty racist to be honest and jars me every time i read it in your posts.

which is a pity as your posts on this subject are pretty much in line with what i think and understand

[Missing Link]

it's pretty racist to be honest and jars me every time i read it in your posts.

It's not racist; and it is from Chy-na.  Though technically it's not a plague.

My mum reckons she was born in China, though I'm a bit dubious about that.  My granddad worked there during the war (when I say worked, he probably slaughtered quite a few of them, being an officer in the Kwangtung army who was accompanied by his wife, which is how my mum reckons she was born there, but the time-line doesn't fit).

And just for interest the word 'Oriental' has supposed racist connotations and shouldn't be used, even though I described myself as of Oriental heritage for years before finding out I was being racist against myself.

It's just so hard to keep up with all the woke nonsense these days.

You'll be telling me that the Spanish Flu or the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome is racist next.

Edited to add: the Spanish flu should really be called the American Flu because it started in Kansas and was brought over to Europe by US soldiers.  But I don't think that's racist either, btw.