Tank goodness!

It was a momentous day down in the Forest yesterday when the paths of Loretta, el10t, el015e, Sam, MMM and the Milk Monster crossed mine – and it was deliberate – hurrah! It was great to put faces to names and to meet some more lovely people in the *ahem* flesh. We were getting a bit worried when it got to 1.45pm and MMM hadn’t turned up (she said she’d arrive by 1pm) but, apparently, she was held up by some soldiers near Salisbury. She thought she’d better not argue with them as they had really big guns on their tanks. Almost as scary as trying to order food from my line manager after 2pm! (it was a narrow squeak, I can tell you). We had a good chinwag and guffawed a bit (mostly at Sam’s jokes – not necessarily the punch-lines, actually, but perhaps more of that some other time!) and Jess learnt how to execute the time-honoured manoeuvre of getting to the top of the slide by walking up it instead of climbing the ladder, which is as yet beyond her capabilities, but only because of the size of the gaps between the steps (they are almost as wide as she is tall)! And, guess what, MMM encountered another tank on the way home, but this one let her through! We have lift-off!