Diary

Being woken at 0600 by a biblical amount of rain isn’t the best time for an alarm clock after a night at HM the High Commissioner’s residence; however, the team had a fantastic rest day ahead of them – enjoying

Following a well-earned rest, courtesy of the previous evening’s “T-bone steaks”, the team were back aboard the trusty bus with the ever-reliable Godfrey at the wheel, departing the hotel at 0750 sharp. Arrival at the range brought its own early

Some of the team were awoken slightly earlier than planned by biblical quantities of rain thrashing on the hotel tin roof at 4am. By 6:45am it had cleared and the team met for breakfast under hot, humid, but clear skies.

Dawn broke on the team’s first full day in Guyana. Breakfast could be taken between 07:00 and 10:00. Most of the team thought they would pop down and eat at 09:00. No chance. With most awake at 04:00, when breakfast

Finally the team was ready to begin its 20 hour journey to Guyana. That would be the whole team minus the diarist, who claimed he was “about a minute away” when leaving his room for the 15 minute walk down

After some debate between military and non-military personnel, we settled that today was D-1, and tomorrow shall be D-Day. Anyone who has toured before will know that D-1/packing has the potential to derail very quickly if we are not on

No, that’s not a typo. We don’t actually leave until Monday, yet the team assembled on Friday evening for our final warm-up match on Saturday against the NRA team that tours to the Channel Islands in May. Hence, Day Minus