5th November

Quite an easy day today, a day off from patrol’s, but still stagging on. Some people are starting to get ill, looks like the start of DnV already. I knew it would happen because I don’t see how they expected us toms to stag on – 3 on 3 off – for 6 months. I know all it seems that I’m doing is moaning about the stag’s every day, but you truly have no idea just how tired we are, we spend more time standing in the sangers then we do anything else during the day. I think maybe the boss can see that the toms are not happy, blokes are snapping around the CP, out on the ground which is not good at all. I hope this shit gets sorted quickly before something happens or someone goes man down.

Apart from that it’s bonfire night, I bet that Jenny and Aran are off to Wayne’s tonight for a firework night and to get on it. We have made our own Fawkes out of paper and sandbags to burn, but first its weapon zeroing time should be good to see who has the best shot. Had a little contact last night about 8-10 rounds came over the CP, probably just a message to let us know that terry’s still here, been a bit quiet the last few days out on the ground, maybe they are just regrouping and rearming? Still after a quick stand to, nothing happened after that.

It’s just turned 0001, getting closer to my birthday now, and I’ve started clock watching already, bad idea out here as time doesn’t seem to move at all, ‘there is no concept of time, there is only STAG’.