Hiya mate,
Blimey, it's been a while eh?
They were good days, I remember spending the day with Bones at the Midland show and on a couple of HFT's, he was a laugh.
Sad to hear about him not being well, I remember giving him a Stealth once and telling him to just check the power as I'd messed about with it, I think Gary measured it at something outrageous that would have got him put in prison and he phoned me saying "cheers"
Funnily enough I always had a lot of time for Baz but he got a bit strange towards the end and he turned on me over a couple of days and we had a right ding-dong, then he banned me at the click of a button. I dug my heels in and wouldn't come back but I remember Terry and a few people eventually got me posting but as I said it killed the fun a bit.
Funny old world.
I ended up living abroad after the army, did a few civvy tours in Iraq/Afghan chasing the cash and then the last decade or so in Dubai.
We bought our dream cottage up in rural Lancs a couple of years ago and prepared to retire, garden big enough for plinking, just a couple of years left then we're done. I stayed shooting but mainly clays and my missus ended up being the airgun nut, she's got a few FX rifles.
I'll try and call in next time we're in the UK and something is going on.