{"id":4700,"date":"2023-03-28T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T21:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2023-03-28T22:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T21:11:06","slug":"4700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/2023\/03\/28\/4700\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life in a Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">Our speaker on 27 March was Maureen Young who is a journalist. Maureen spent a lot of her time being embedded with mainly the Black Watch, but also the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on their postings around the world, in places such as Berlin, Northern Ireland and Kosovo. Maureen&#8217;s talk was entitled &#8216;My Life in a Mess&#8217; which alluded to the fact that she was always given the honorary rank of officer when with the army and would eat in the officers&#8217; mess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">Maureen has a great sense of humour, and is apparently fearless, telling us with a laugh how she was pushed out of a plane from about 12 feet up as the plane was unable to land. She was occasionally in quite dangerous situations but says she didn&#8217;t feel afraid as she had full confidence in the army. We thoroughly enjoyed Maureen&#8217;s reminiscences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4701\" style=\"width: 983px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_2611.jpg-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4701\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_2611.jpg-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"983\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_2611.jpg-c.jpg 983w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_2611.jpg-c-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Maureen Young with President Annette<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our speaker on 27 March was Maureen Young who is a journalist. 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