All the nice girls love a sailor…

… well this one certainly does naval pilots in particular!

Everyone knows that there is something incredibly sexy about a man in uniform but until now I’d never been lucky enough to actually meet any men wearing their uniforms and therefore was a bit ‘non-committal’ about the effect the uniform would actually have… Well, its true girls… boy oh boy is it true!

Last saturday Rob (one of my work mates) and I had to go down to London to interview and video some naval pilots at their graduation ceremony. Having to work on a saturday is never my idea of fun so it was with great reluctance that I hauled my ass out of bed for a day of ‘work’. Work - ha… I think I might actually have paid my employers to be given this job

Our basic task was to meet the guys, organise photographs with the naval photographer, watch their cermony and then interview/video them about their studies afterwards. It wasn’t until they actually arrived - in all their naval splendour - that I realised just how scrummy a uniform makes a man. OMG! Fantasyland or what!

Watching them on stage, saluting the presiding officers and looking all smart and shiny in their uniforms had Rob and I glowing with pride at ‘our boys’ - even though we’d only met them for 10 minutes or so by this point! And by the time we got round to properly chatting and then interviewing them we were both giggling like a pair of schoolgirls with the most enourmous crushes! I got even more giggly when I had to give one of them my card so he could get copies of any of the photos taken - good excuse or what

I’m not sure what it was exactly that caused my regression to giggling teenager mentality, all I can remember is the uniforms and an incredibly strong desire to re-enact that famous scene out of An Officer and a Gentleman!! And I had to try really hard - when one of them talked about settling down and having a family in the future - not to propopse to him right then and there!

Wonder if there’s any way of persuading darling boyf to sign up…