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Welcome to our Comments page where you can find the occasional piece of insight from the boys and staff of the Company.

We start the ball rolling with:-

 

"A Senior Moment"- 5th September 2007.

 

Something happened during the Summer Break.!

Somewhere between a holiday down South, two, yes two, Kaiser Chief gigs and the Brigade starting back,
.......... I became a Senior!!!

 

We started back last night and how time flies. It's not just the Summer that disappears fast, but years too!
One minute it's session 88-89 the next it's session 07-08 and not a TARDIS in sight either.

 

Nineteen years have zipped past, and the some of the young boys who entered the Company in the years following '88 are now amongst the Officer ranks.
Helping to give back something of the experience, team spirit and comradeship they enjoyed, I hope, in their younger Company days.

 

But it came home to me on our first night back that there is now a distinct, but very happy divide in the Officers ranks, and last night felt as though the baton was being passed down to the new officers, if only partially.

 

We "Seniors" are not quite of Zimmer age yet and there is no doubt the new help is most welcome after the core of three officers have "plodded on" during our early years in charge of the Company Section. There have been busy periods where each of us was sretched for time and resources and I am glad of the new officers.

 

Although we continue to try to adapt, there is no getting away from the fact that we "Senior" officers are not as close to the boys thinking as the new staff are, even if it is by just a little. We are still boys at heart though.

 

Personally, I am getting close to having the grey hairs on my head equal the dark ones, ( it will be Grecian 2000 soon, or there again maybe not ), and just as I remember becoming a Senior Company Section boy many years ago, I now find myself becoming a Senior officer even though I am still only in my early forties

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It's weird in a funny sort of way, that this should have appeared out of the blue, but appeared it has.

 

I don't feel older, but I do remember my enjoyment of being a young officer in the 5th and later 3rd Greenock Company Sections and now see our "youngsters" getting ready to take over in that role.

 

But as I said earlier, I'm glad of the new help, glad of the new input and glad for the Company knowing now that the 3rd will continue to have the support it needs for the foreseeable future.

 

I've hopefully a long road still to travel as a "Senior" BB officer yet, and may find myself having to let go of a few tasks and the odd class to the "young ones", but our future will be better for it.!!

 

The next generation of 3rd Greenock Officers have arrived.

 

Now where have I left my slippers?!

 

Signed " A Senior Officer!"