It’s a Dog’s Life

  • The Steam Room

     The original Steam Room lived on The Forces Business Net to allow for the Company Principal and other interested parties to ‘let off steam’; in practice, most of the input fell to that Principal.  It is hoped that this new venture will generate more involvement from other contributors. There is little, if any, running theme…

  • LOOKING BACK

    An Ornery Old Military Man Looks Back “A first-time author who should not be encouraged to reoffend” – JKR Background Born during World War II, the claim that my birth had been part of the war effort evaporated when it was pointed out that, as another unemployable mouth to feed, my contribution favoured Adolph Hitler’s…

  • How Will We Survive Without Nanny EU To Guide Us & Other Questions?

    Below is a collection of recent letters to the Daily Telegraph (DT) that all failed to impress the Editor and probably anybody else for that matter: A Real Tonic Oh good!  After four years of debate the European Commission has ruled that Britain can keep the name ‘Tonic’.  Many will be wondering what other vital…

  • Still Unloved………

    Introduction.  Below are letters sent to my favourite Newspaper over recent months that have failed to impress the Editor. National Parks What is likely to be the long term impact of throwing tarmac at natural pathways in a National Park as a means of attracting the young and ethnic minorities to the area?   Nobody knows…

  • More EU-related Random Thoughts Of A Prejudiced Mind

    (Sub Title: What can one say? The safe answer to the question ‘what can one say?’ might be to keep schtum. However many will be disappointed to know that such a response would have been entirely out of character – sorry. After some three years of confusion we seem to be moving to a new…

  • Sometimes Pompous Sometimes Not

    Some passing thoughts from 2019 are offered, many of which failed to impress Newspaper Editors so I am absolutely confident that they will remain widely unread…………………………………………………. Neither Liberal Nor Democrat.   A recent example of Brexit unpleasantness is offered by the posting of a photograph of Nigel Farage within the cross hairs of a rifle’s…

  • Thoughts that have been universally ignored………………..

    Letters to the Press on a wide range of matters fly through the interweb from my PC like rounds from a Multi Launch Rocket System. However if they do reach their intended target there is seldom any reaction and publication rarely results. So it’s back to the drawing-board with my old school motto ringing in…

  • The Sins of the Father

    The Sins of the Father It is a pity that the Archbishop of Canterbury has chosen to focus on statues and Jesus’s skin colour rather than on such pressing issues as: FGM, child & forced marriages, starving children in the Yemen and the persecution & murder of Christians from Africa to the Far East. Although…

  • From Nursing to National Parks via Rutland

    Some recent failed attempts to get my outrageous views published in the MSM are offered below: The Name Game Your Editorial rightly states that Nurses have better things to do than read a 26 page Guide on how to refer to people. A better solution might be for nurses simply to say: “How do you…

  • Recent House Moving Experiences

    Allow me to offer some thoughts – in brief (I hope): Selling. While I did not mind the lack of continuity in terms of who the Agent sent to show potential purchasers around, I was dismayed at the ignorance of the details by the young ‘showers’ (the grown-up/older showers were a class act – one…

  • From Beckham to the Belligerent Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

    Evidence suggests that nobody is the least bit interested in my opinions as indicated by this summary of some failed attempts to avoid the Editor of my favourite newspaper’s axe. School Tax Raid In accordance with Labour’s thinking that Somewhere, somehow, someone is better off than I am and that should not be allowed, Independently…