Hello  there me hearty fellow Navy fans… I am slacking on my blog of late… got too engrossed last night in Jack Osbourne’s TV show last night. Have you seen it?? It’s totally amazing. To be honest, thats the kind of stuff I thought we would be doing for the TV show and challenges, I had no idea that what we would be doing would be so military…

However…I feel like a new woman today. I have been getting a”heroes welcome”at most of the clubs that I teach at, followed by “your so brave, there’s no way I could’ve done that”…and ” I am so proud of you”. That’s a really nice feeling, although I am in no way a hero… however, am slightly disappointed that the queen hasn’t got in touch to suggest a knighting??(surely she’s tuned in and is impressed with my mental strength and humour, even when the chips are down(talking of chips they come up later). Isn’t that what knighting is all about?)  Dame Carla… now I like that alot!

Anyway.. where were we?

Ah yes, my top 5 best bits… despite the water element, some funny things happened in the Navy.

1. GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP

After sleeping in a wet hammock in the Jungle, and my rubbish snowhole in Norway. To be able to sleep in a bed, with covers, pillows and warmth was just amazing… I was so grateful of a decent night’s sleep, I had that whole bed area to myself as the boys and girls were separated. It was nice having my own space and more importantly I was able to shower!!! That in itself was heaven…

Remember previously I’d got used to going to toilet on the floor, no shower, same pants for 4 days, sweating, getting wet, uncomfortable, freezing, carrying stupid huge rucksacks and eating grubs/tortoise. The Naval ship I slept on, was like a 5 Star hotel in comparison.

I had a full night’s sleep, however did half expect to be woken up early hours of the night to go and do some challenge( that comes soon..keep watching). A full 6 hours undisturbed sleep… now that was bliss.

2. WE STOPPED A FIGHT

This is a funny one.. let me explain. During one of our challenges out and about, we did alot of physical exercise drills on the beach. One particular day, we were all in our Navy uniforms about to start a drill, and we all decided to pop to the loo, which was a short run away… during this run to the loo, there was a fight errupting on the streets of Portsmouth. We were literally just running past, when one of the fightees stopped and started to report the other bloke to us.

Having our Navy uniform on and running towards them, they must have presumed we were all running to break up the fight, when actually we were all running to use the toilet!  It was quite funny how they must have assumed we were actually in the Navy and started to fill us in on  “who started it etc”..

Anyway the fight stopped and we went about our business so to speak, but that will always clearly stick in my mind.

3.FISH AND CHIPS

I don’t eat fish and chips. Actually, that’s a lie… I do occasionally like once in a blue moon. In fact, I have eaten fish and chips twice this year. Once in Wales on the seafront post Unbreakable, and the other time was after The Navy. I remember the drive back from Portsmouth up to London, it was late evening, we were all starving and we did a stop off at a fish and chip shop on the way. God that tasted good.Real good. There is something about eating fish and chips, the smell of the vinegar and that little plastic fork that all adds to the experience of it. I would be disappointed if I had to eat fish and chips with proper metal cutlery.. it wouldn’t be the same.

Same as, it wouldn’t be the same, if they weren’t piping hot.. you know it’s going to be hot, no amount of blowing on it is going to cool that number one chip down, so you stick it into your mouth expecting it to have cooled, yet it burns the roof of your mouth off!… it’s all part of the fish and chip experience.

I don’t know about you, but I am also a little possessive of the 2 tomato ketchup sachets I have purchased to accompany my fish and chips. I ama sharing person, but there is something about having to share my sachets that annoys me… My mind says”can’t you get your own?” whilst my voice says” sure, help yourself” as I eagerly watch to make sure the fellow ketchup stealer isn’t swiping it all.

Life… Quite often it’s the litte things that either irritate or make us laugh isn’t it?

Shall finish my Moments tomorrow…

Bye for now x