Attention troops. The task is coming to an end... sometime later today.

Ahmed attempts a coup... and fails
Early this morning Ahmed attempted to strip down Michelle's uniform in an exchange for his. There wasn't quite the Carry On capers going on that the description just there might have sounded of though, and it was more a war of words.

He tried to trick Michelle in to handing over her uniform so as he could take it back to the diary room, but she smelt a rat and refused to let him have it back, at which point he announced that there was going to be a military coup, and he would be promoted to sergeant, while Michelle would be a private - genius Ahmed, genius.

Ahmed claimed that it'd be for the benefit of the entire group, and that it'd help ensure that the privates passed the task - of course though in retrospect that'd have meant that Michelle would have been up for eviction if they do indeed pass, so it's no wonder she was having none of Ahmed's advances on her mock military positon.

Dirty Privates Washed in Public
Big Brigadier has given the housemates their final main task for the week - to iron, fold and pack 50 shirts in 1 hour 30 minutes. They must copy an example shirt which has been provided to them, which is perfectly ironed, folded and packed ready for use.

The Sergeants must also make sure that every Private irons at least one shirt each, so there's no slacking out of the chore doing the easy work elsewhere. However with only two irons, two ironing boards, 2 shirt boards it's going to get pretty frantic during the 90 minutes if they're all fighting over the same equipment.

Shell took on her typical mothery role, which has grown even stronger since mother-hen Vanessa left a few weeks ago, and declared her "love" for ironing. Ahmed and Victor however decided that their skills were best off with the buttoning of shirts...

Inspeccctchun!
Sergeants Jason and Michelle have told the Privates that they have 30 minutes to get up to scratch and be spick and span before Big Brigadier inspects them.

Each of the privates will be told to go through a series of Army moves, including "Attention", "At Ease", "Present Arms", "Slope Arms Left" - all of it counting towards their possibility of passing or failing the overall weekly task, and certainly more tricky than a meagre spelling test like last week.

However fag-hag Nadia wasn't impressed that she was lined up to go last, and was clearly under some sort of dillusion like she has been previously about the fact that her lack of cigarettes was causing her to go round the bend, and when the inspection was over she dashed off to Big Brother in the diary room to cry about her lack of cigarettes, saying that she's suffering from a nicotine withdrawal... riiight.

The Eye awaits the announcement as to if they've passed or failed, with great interest. Fall out!