Personal Narrative: Fogging With The Cat

I will keep in mind that I should be aiming for a cadence of between five to six minutes for ten dozen strokes of the Cat, Andy. I suspect that I was hitting that sort of rate towards the end of the dose that I laid on, as by then my cadence felt smooth (from my perspective) and the Cat seemed easier to control. You were laying on at the right rate for the last few dozen and I am pleased that you felt this was a natural rhythm for laying a Cat on; this shows a fundamental feel for what is required. I really was surprised at how much more natural it felt and how much more accurate I became, when I picked up the correct cadence. I can fully understand how it takes a hard man to stand and take a flogging with the Cat, if the pain just

God knows how many times I read the text as I wrote it and then again last night, but I just didn't spot the error. The other preposition error is interesting, as I suspect that it's my experience in the CCF that lead me to write that you "pass out of". In a military context, I'd have never even considered using "from" instead of "of"!☺ In the regular British Army you pass out from IBT (Initial Basic Training) , IST, etc. You do pass out of Sandhurst or RMPTC, perhaps this is where you've got this idea from. It is 'of' when referring to a place/specific training establishment and 'from' when it is a level of training or a specific skills or knowledge based course. Using "of" when referring to a place and "from" when referring to a level of training, makes sense. Sadly, I think that the usage got corrupted when I was in the CCF, as I recall that we "passed out of..." levels of training as well... e.g. we passed out of PTC (Primary Training

I've covered the problems with playing the videos and my thoughts in our other email. I'm glad it's all sorted out now...  Well consolidated again Mark, don't think you've missed anything significant out! I watched the first part of Remedial Training this morning, it played fine without have lots of Google Tabs open, I think that this must have been a laptop issue, perhaps this has only just occurred as I have quite a bit stored on it at the moment (still looking for the power lead for the external hard drive), I've not taken our videos of its hard drive since July, etc? Thanks for the kind comment re my consolidation. I was pleased with the result and even more pleased to see that I didn't make any cock-ups! I suspect that the laptop issues were all about the memory that Chrome was taking with a number of open tabs, thus robbing VLC of the working memory it needed. The amount and volume of files on the hard drive shouldn't make a great deal of difference to VLC's performance, unless the hard drive is almost out of space... Is it just the power lead, or the whole power pack, that you can't locate for the external hard drive? I may well have a spare power