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I see there are yellow snow warnings in place. Do you really have to be told this? DO NOT EAT YELLOW SNOW. Silly people...

If you can ski in mid-summer in the UK, you can ski anywhere in any conditions! Train hard, fight (ski) easy...

Agreed - some things never change; nobody likes the Artillery nowadays either! ?

Funny you should ask. I was only watching the River Hull tidal barrier keeping us safe last night as it was lowered to keep out a very high spring tide pouring in from the Humber. The city still floods though, just nowhere near as much as it used to before the barrier was built. The mural on the side of the pub shows the height of the water during the 2013 North Sea storm surge.

We haven’t had snow (settled on the ground) for over 1000 days in bedford. Tomorrow looks like that will change. Guess who’s driving to work at 7am and will be the first onto the roads...

Isn't that part of the job of an infantryman? Doing the grunt work for those of us with "thinking" jobs? WAAAY off topic for the thread (and I do apologise) but I remember one exercise, the infantry lot were sniggering at us having our 100 pound backpacks (45kg) while they were down to lightweight overnight kit only while doing a forced march hill takeover and defensive dig-in. 10k-ish cross country forced march, we were knackered, my boss then called in a favour... We sat watching the infantry lot trench up, one of their officers said "you'd better get yours done before light goes", just at that time a Royal Engineers' JCB pulled up, scooped out our trench in 10 minutes and we did the fancy tidy-up stuff before settling down I've never felt so smug in my life.

I take it you don’t know much about the forward observer role then! We spend about half our time with the infantry and the rest in forward recce positions that aren’t typical infantryman roles. No point having a forward observer where they can’t see the bad guys. Also, while infantry get to go lightweight, we usually still have our full packs plus two radios and spare batteries. Infantry units have fancy Colours with all the battle names, we simply have Ubique (everywhere).

That’s just jealousy from infantry folk with their little pop guns.

England’s Premier Ski Resort (Yad Moss) not quite but nearly ready to go...

Some things never change! Beautiful buttons one your uniforms though. HA!

Familiar for about the first minute, then...