Oh, good-oh!!  A bit of Winter sunshine!!  Whilst sat in the office at HQ Bears, I discovered there was a chance of a Bear heading to the Caribbean.  I wasted no time in packing my Bergen with a fresh supply of Hols4H business cards, and managed to persuade a very nice man at CrewTags to run [...]

Operation Bristol – Remembrance Sunday So you thought I had gone MIA, eh? No, not CSgt Burra: I was just lucky enough to have had a few days off before Remembrance Sunday, and boy did I need it! Folk done err speaks funny, and it takes ol Csgt Burra a while ta get me ed [...]

I gather it’s the fashion amongst the humans to head to Europe for something called Christmas Markets.  I, on the other hand [or should that be paw?], went to Bovington for a Wartime Christmas Fair at the Tank Museum.  It was an opportunity to meet up with Braille and Amy, and have a little beary [...]

Task No RRR 1000 … this is real long-haul flying in a very small jet, so pay attention!! 5 Oct 11 Cpl Arnhem was supernumerary crew on board a HS 125 of 32 (The Royal) Squadron. We set off from Bahrain … the trip was to take Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach KCB CBE [...]

On 18 Aug 11, the Sword & Wheel Club at Royal Air Force Northolt held a charity event titled ‘An Evening of Comedy’.  The event was organised to raise both money and awareness for two worthwhile charities, Holidays 4 Heroes and Help for Heroes.  The total was finalised, and the amount raised was in excess [...]

The Bristol Connection … Operation Bonfire Night After receiving numerous emails from one Ernie O’Kirkalea, another BurraBear now residing in Bristol, I was dispatched to Bristol to see Ernie and the promise of many adventures,.  The first was being packed back into a shipping container, not for the claustrophobic, but a breeze for me. Once I arrived [...]

On a dark and dreary Halloween evening The BMG decided to arouse me from my comfy slumber with a amusing call of “Ever been to Finland”? “No” I replied “Great, you’re going in a week, pack your stuff – your Bearer will sort you out with a parka when you get out there”! And I [...]

Southampton was fun, but it was time to get on with some work.  I was handed over to a lovely lady called Sam (my Bearers neighbour-in-Law) who took me to Bournemouth Football Club. I had a guided tour of the whole place, from locker room, to the manager’s office, via the ticket office. I may [...]

Once the Bisley fun had ended, I made my way by campervan of doom (or as soldiergirl would prefer to call it, the ‘ape van’ due to the monkey business she assumes goes on in it) to a secret address in Aldershot.  On the Monday I headed to Browning Barracks, once home to Para training, [...]

On a warm August day our bearers put Sergeant Braille and myself in their car and took us to Blasts From The Past, a living history event at Broadlands in Romsey, Hampshire.  This is a multi-period event with re-enactors portraying everything from the ancient world right up to end of the 20th century. We arrived at [...]