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Three days to go …<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening the Brigadieress and I raised the flag – the new Brigade flag that is (I have no idea what some of you were thinking …).<\/p>\n

The old Brigade banner (below) was a home-made affair with a charm of its own, and has served us well for many years. However, it’s beginning to show its age and the time has come for it to be pensioned off into well-earned retirement.<\/p>\n

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Its replacement is a shiny new, 10-feet high feather flag from the Hampshire Flag Company<\/a> (we’ll give them a plug because we’re very pleased with what they’ve done and the service we received). It should give you a chance of finding us across the vast acreage of the ExCel centre on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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