FOR MY REVIEW of 2020 I thought I should provide you with excerpts of letters and art that help capture my experiences… Letter to a
WHEN AN E-MAIL from the editor landed in my inbox asking for an opinion on a book I’d read in this dreadful year, three thoughts
IN THE AFTERMATH of Labour’s crushing electoral defeat minds quickly turned to speculating how such a thing could have happened. Was it Brexit? Or perhaps
WOO HOO – It’s Christmas week, peeps, and I have to say that I’m super excited this year. This has been the most organised I
FOR THOSE who don’t read German the last few years have seen the publication of at least three real page-turners on the history of Central Europe.
‘Twas the night before Lockdown, when all through the house Not a citizen stirred, not even a spouse. The facemasks were hung by the front
THE AIR WAR had started. We rapidly became swamped with information and statistics – so many radars destroyed there, so many aircraft hit by small
SO I WON THE BATTLE of getting the decorations up early! After seeing all the beautiful lights and trees up in the town, our house
ELEVEN more sleeps to go! After my blog last week, I would like to thank you guys who took the time to give me their
HOW a country acts, how its government behaves, is as much a cultural decision as it is a legal one. Laws can be changed or
YEP, THAT’S IT! Put it on a red baseball cap and do me a run of 10,000! Allow me to begin with a declaration. I
AND SO 1991 ARRIVED and found all of us at Headquarters British Forces Middle East (HQBFME) in reasonably good spirits. By now we realised that