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Fun day out at The Mall and a reminder about the ‘Wear the Fox Hat’ charity raffle
I thought a quick update would be suitable after my first game in er… many years? First up to thank First and Only Airsoft for a great day’s gaming and secondly to the Bamako Bampots as the event today at The Mall was an organised charity event.
All proceeds from the event have gone to their charitable outlets. For those that don’t know, First and Only Airsoft have an urban site in the centre of Reading called The Mall. There’s a car park, and if you’re a public transport fan the bus terminal and railway station are minutes away on foot (slightly longer if you carry big arse bags of kit like me). It’s a great site, run by people in the know, ran amazingly well with all mod cons available (hot bogs, brews and charging facilities.. who needs anything else?).
Now the important bit.. Steve and the Bamako Bampots and the Wear the Fox Hat raffle. What’s it all about? Here’s a bit of blurb from their site:
We are a UK registered charity whose mission is to help communities help themselves. By providing emergency vehicles, medical equipment and funding for local personnel we help deliver critical immunisation programs aimed at reducing the infant mortality and increasing the adult life expectancy beyond the current 38 yrs.
Working with Rotary Internation[al] we contacted the Mayor of Bamako. The Mayor was thankful for any aid we could provide and specifically requested any medical aid and ambulances to be used in the Kalaban Coro area of Mail.
We resolved to provide them with two fully functional and equipped ambulances suitable for harsh African environment where they will be used to provide emergency aid to 49,000 people currently residing in the 220sq km area of Kalaban Coro currently without any vehicular or emergency aid.
For more on the work of Bamako Bampots visit www.bamakobampots.org to see the amazing work we are doing.
Raffle tickets are a fiver, and by entering you get a chance to win one of the donated items up for grabs including a Paul Piper minigun. The draw will take place on the 24th of December or sooner if all the tickets are sold. The funds all go to a good cause and you stand a chance of winning some decent Airsoft kit.
So rather than buying a handful of pyros or some extra gas and BBs at your next game please buy a ticket. It’s all for a good cause! If you’re a company and looking to make a charitable write off of some form this year then give do give them a shout.
Oh and please don’t forget Frag Photos. If Frag Photos take photos at your event they’ll appear online at http://www.fragphotos.com, where you can buy individual photos for 5p each (subscriptions are also available). All proceeds go to charity. At the moment there’s shots up there from Elite Action Games, First and Only Airsoft TA Events, South West Wargames and Bamako Bampots.
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We are currently having some upgrades done to the server at this time. Do bear with us, there are likely to be small outages tonight whilst this is done.
Apologies for any inconvenience, however we are experiencing higher traffic levels lately and need to do some upgrades that are overdue.
Please be aware that should the forums become overloaded you should receive a message rather than a blank screen from now on. I’m working on curing the cause of the loading now, however this should keep things stable.
I’ll update on here with the latest information as it is available.
Update (in early AM of 12/12): well unfortunately the update didn’t take and left us with the latest PHP and SQL but SQL couldn’t be seen by PHP. End result we’ve rolled back to what we were running. We are going to schedule a complete upgrade probably next week. That’ll involve a new rack and moving all our data across onto the new box, then upgrading the news and forums. It won’t be smooth, this stuff never is, but it’ll mean more room and space. More importantly.. more pooooooower (like Clarkson would say).
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I’ve been tweaking and updating the website. It’s not nearly as much work as I intend to complete, however it’s a good start. So far:
- We’re now running a wider site with more information on the front page. Almost all computers run at 1024×768 and above in screen pixels so it only made sense.
- The top header images have been updated. If you have a photo of your own you’d like to submit please feel free to send it in. I’ll include a nickname/reference to show it is your in the image (see below).
- ..header shots are a bit more festive. If you want to send over your own Christmas photo for inclusion please make it 950x201px in size and JPG format (see below).
- The magazine links have been updated and new covers are there now.
- There’s now a dedicated radio show/podcast link section on the front page. Have you got a radio station you want on there we’ve not covered? As ever email us and it’ll be considered.
- We have new active facebook and twitter accounts for those of you that partake in such things.
If you want to send over an image as described above seed it to:
Please do remember if you have news you would like included or want to submit a press release, send it over to..
Easiest way is to send us text with attached images and URLs/weblinks. We’ll then format it and add it for you.
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Here’s some new videos that have appeared on YouTube in the past 24hours in my subscriptions:
New Videos from militaryblogjp
New Videos from RedwolfAirsoft
- Redwolf Airsoft – VFC EGLM DX Airsoft Grenade Launcher Review
- Redwolf Airsoft – A&K Masada Review
- RedWolf Airsoft – Airsoft Surgeon Diamond Extended Magazine Catch
New Videos from echo1usa
I would have added the AATV video, but we’ve already covered that in a previous post.
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RedWolf Airsoft are having a “Cyber Tuesday” sale.
The details are as follows:
Cyber Monday Blues? Welcome to Cyber Tuesday and get 10% off everything in our store today only.
Simply enter coupon code “FVLDCPTR” during checkout!