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Enchanting! I
Flt Lt Matt Prosser started life in the RAF as an aircraft engineer working at RAF Lossiemouth and Waddington as a propulsion technician. In 2004 he took a commission. Matt has flown as a SAR captain at RAF Boulmer and now flies from RMB Chivenor. There is however another side to this man… This is Matt’s story.
was driving home from visiting my nephew Charlie when the phrase ‘The little boy with the red hair’ began running through
my head. I made a note of it on a piece of paper when I got home because it seemed important at the time. I then promptly forgot about it for a few weeks until I was having a tidy up. As I looked at the words, an idea formed that I could try to do something really nice for Charlie’s birthday.
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I have never wanted children of my own but when I met my nephew for the first time there was an instant connection and he is my little mate and makes me laugh on a regular basis. I felt a really powerful sensation that I wanted to do something really nice for his birthday and so I started to sit down and slowly add words and ideas. The first few paragraphs took a little while but soon I found I was creating a rhyming story that I was very happy with and becoming quite attached to.
The story came together quite quickly and naturally but I found it really hard to draw pictures that I liked, so, once again, the project got put to one side. I read the story to my parents to see if they thought it would work as a present for Charlie and they (obviously!) thought it was the most wonderful thing they had ever heard but, then, a parent’s opinion can only be believed so far!
A couple of months later I was deployed to the Falkland Islands and for those who have
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