Tanks

For Mr Dancin's birthday last year I got him a tank driving experience. He was in the army as a young man and worked on tanks as a gun fitter. He did used to get to drive them but it was just to move them in and out of the hanger areas.

Well he got the trip booked in and yesterday we went out in the mud and rain, as hoped for, and he got to drive a Chieftain Tank, the Abbot self propelled gun, an armoured personnel carrier and Quad Bikes.

There was also excellent provision made for spectators and I got to have a ride on all of the same vehicles except the quad bikes.

It was a wonderful day, my lasting memories of which will be Mr Dancin and everyone else around me grinning like idiots, and copious amounts of mud!