07 SCOTCH MIST

COMEDIAN Simon Bligh did a CSE tour of Afghanistan during Panther’s Claw in August 2009. He was part of a group comprising two comics, three dancers and a band. The Black Watch were in Bastion and invited the CSE circus to tea. And Simon learned a sharp lesson…
“I discovered that sometimes I become invisible,” he said. “It turns out that this Scottish regiment suffers from terrible tunnel vision and deafness, so if three lovely female dancers stand near me and the band, we are all invisible. No one spoke to, looked at or listened to me for an hour.
“Still, the tea was nice and no-one grabbed my bum.”