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Submit your OwnA Brogue, a Bin and Berlin
Serving as a Royal Military Police NCO in the British Sector of West Berlin was still quite something, even in the early eighties. For a start, compared to other postings, we went on duty mob handed – which was a novelty. There were two NCOs to patrol the Berlin Wall,...
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My friend Gordon was a RAF conscript during National Service. When it comes to swapping yarns with him, I can generally hold my own, but this one was a proper Brahma: “In the summer of 1959, twenty four of us from my Squadron were picked to go to Canada as ground crew...
Horse
Neigh! Neigh! Oddenstein: "Come back with my horse, that's the last bit of voice I've got left." Monument having tripped and concertina-ed over a gnomon: "What a grumpy looking gnome." Gnomon: "Speak for yourself, sunshine, if you had t sit out in all weathers on top...
An Introduction to A Portrait of The Autist as a Young Man
An Introduction to A Portrait of The Autist as a Young Man To think at the deepest level is to stop thinking and to experience thought at a spiritual level. I look to my genes and see that I share 50% of my DNA with that of a banana, truly I have a vegetable being...
Letter from Timmy the dog, one of Ms Blyton’s Famous Five.
Letter from Timmy the dog, one of Ms Blyton’s Famous Five. From: The camp site---somewhere wet, cold and miserable. Dear Pussikins Fluffles Willow, Oh, Ok, Ok, so I know you hate being called that. It’s just that I’m feeling all bitter and twisted, even my bark is...
Letter from the nurse to a friend
Dear Cordelia, Oh my dear friend, I am a broken woman, a sad embittered lonely old woman. I am sitting at my dressing table writing this letter to you. The hour has struck midnight and yet I cannot sleep, afraid of the ghosts, afraid of the nightmares. The tragedy,...
What does God mean to me ?
What does God mean to me? Well for something to mean anything there has to be a something or someone, which evokes the question; is there a God at all? The God we are brought up to believe in, as told in the bible, created heaven and earth in six days, resting on the...
The Narritive of my only sea adventure
The Narrative of My Only Sea Adventure (I Hope!) 11.7.1943 March 23rd 1943 Being my own personal experiences of the torpedoing of the “Windsor Castle” on that day. The day previous, 22nd March 1943, we, 2,000 troops, airmen and soldiers, had been given instructions...
Taking Orders
This is a true story. A Lance Corporal (LCpl), who we will call Gus, was told to report to his Staff Sergeant (SSgt) who we shall call Stan. Now Gus was not the brightest tool in the box and was renowned for his rather shadowy ways and was known for telling tales...
The Sweetest Empire
( An abridged and adapted excerpt from my second Novel ) In 1914, having just completed her nursing probation at the Royal Free Hospital in London, Kitty waves her brother, Harry, and her lover, Lawrence, off to war. A few days later she begins work at the Royal...