Bizarre life on a Military Base

[MollyMaz]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046994/Your-husband-promoted-wear-trousers-An-RAF-wife-reveals-VERY-bizarre-life-military-base.html

Read this today in the Mail (so should be taken lightly), but managed to get wound up at the outdated attitude of the writer and those she describes......

Although, I'm not surprised she's divorced now if her DH having to do the families online Tesco orders whilst on deployment!

Madwoman - no thankfully I am not in the pic!! I am not married to an officer so would not have mixed in her circles should her story be believed!!

I did know a few officers wives as friends tho - the fact they were officers wives never really being an issue for me (nor them - I assume as we are still in touch). Saying that I dont recognise anyone in that pic! Did people really dress like that just 10 years ago???

I really quite enjoyed our 2 years at Lyneham. Sad we wont ever get the chance to go back!

exactly, it's very funny. the friends i am still in touch with are other ranks wives.

did people really dress like that just ten years ago? um, yeah. formal wear is very difficult, i find! i've always worn black. black. black. black. so doesn't date as quickly (and you can wear it again when you get posted ) until shriv and i bought a purple dress for the purple ball. well, you have to, really. (it lasted about an hour until i spilt chocolate all over it standing too close to the chocolate fountain) hey ho.

i intend to force my daughters to wear them as vintage at some point.

laura ashley is mostly to blame for the mid to late nineties, i fear. oh, and monsoon, obv.

have only ever been at lyneham as a worker bee, so haven't experienced the patch there (mq elsewhere and i lived in the mess) but it can't be that different to any other large transport base surely? i mean even the fast jet stations are identikit.

That's when I know we were too conditioned - try leaving the patch for good and wondering what feels strange and uncomfortable about the supermarket - then realising it's because there is no-one in DPM pushing a trolley on a Friday evening.

Yes march out is a bitch, but you have to keep telling your self that you really wouldn't want the next innocent wife to take up your accomodation in a state would you....?

How dirty did she get her bloody oven fgs? The army oven I had was the best, it looked hideous, but worked a treat. I wonder also how dirty she wanted her house to get, that she complained she'd need to leave it spotless on march out.

She just sounds slovenly, the army wives I lived amongst were some of the cleanest, hardest working ladies I've ever met. If she had no pride in her home, she should have moved off patch frankly.