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…

  • What’s Gone Wrong?

    What’s Gone Wrong? When I was young, I had no sense  I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence . The only tune that it would play Was over the hills and far away                                Clancy Brothers What, if anything, has gone wrong with our society in recent years?  Those like me in their twilight years, focusing…

  • MY MILITARY MUSINGS

    A Letter from Rear Admiral Ric Cheadle, Times Newspaper For those of us who would wish to see our defence capability return to a semblance of credibility, there is a dilemma. Do we support Labour, who are promising jam tomorrow; the Conservatives, who ate the jam and failed to order any more; the Greens, who want…

  • Banging On

    Opinionated Random Thoughts (aka a Non Sequitur).  By remaining seated and avoiding contact with mirrors, there are moments during which oldies like me can easily fleetingly manage to feel young again.  During such delusional moments I can cast my mind back to the days of rationing which pertained for the first nine years of my…

  • 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…