It was a pleasure to welcome Commodore Atherton onboard for his first visit to Southwark Sea Cadet unit.
As Naval Regional Commander Eastern Region Commodore Atherton has a varied and busy role including masterminding the Royal Navy organisational involvement in the London 2012 Olympics.
We hope to see much more of him as he has kindly agreed to take on the honorary role of Unit President.
The approach of the festive season provided an ideal opportunity for a visit to the ice rink.
At the start of the session standards varied with some spending much of the day sitting on the ice.
However, towards the end all were skating proficiently benefiting from the excellent tuition of PO McBride.
Recently we all enjoyed a visit to HMS Belfast courtesy of CPO Paul Townsend.
HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser.
This was a double ships visit as Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans was in the Upper pool of London alongside HMS Belfast.
No surprise, yet another busy weekend.
Two to Crowborough Army Camp for Activity First Aid.
Callum Peek to Royal Marine reserve London for a Physical Training Course.
Ten to Mereworth Woods MOD Training area for practice D of E bronze expedition.
And November isn't over yet.
Oscar Reyes has just returned from an offshore cruise aboard TS John Jerwood.
To complete the eventful week TS John Jerwood together with TS Jack Petchey escorted TS Royalist into Portsmouth for the final time.
More than 30,000 cadets have sailed with the Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) flagship since it was commissioned in 1971, including Oscar.
Its replacement, a £4.8m, 32-metre (105ft) brig, is being built in Spain and is due to be delivered in March in time for the 2015 season during which a number of Southwark Cadets will put to sea.
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