A Soldier’s Life is Terrible Hard!
Too tired after Tai Chi to discover what I think today, so here’s a story instead… a soldier’s life is terrible hard, said Alice – when Christopher Robin went down to the Palace! It didn’t seem that...
View ArticleA Soldier’s Life is Terrible Hard -Part 11
By popular demand, another instalment of a soldier’s life!! After my somewhat chequered career as a recruit I set off for officer cadet school with the rest of my intake – all eleven of us who had...
View ArticleAwards Are Awesome…And…
I have mixed feelings about all awards, not just bloggers awards., We’ve just had the New Year Queen’s Honours list announced in this country, and as usual the people who’ve had successful careers –...
View ArticleCarrying On With The Army Again (part 4)
This is the continuing story of ‘my brilliant career’ in the army! I had returned from my regime of prayer and fasting, otherwise known as a Religious Leadership course, none the wiser, but many times...
View ArticleRise up children and be free
How to make yourself very, very unpopular! Years ago I discovered that in the tug of war between the rights of women and the needs of children it can be dangerous to take sides. I gave up writing...
View ArticleThese I have loved
Preparing for the next adventure in my life, I look around the house wondering what to keep and what to let go, and I realise there are some things I cannot be parted from. They own me and I am their...
View ArticleDucal splendour and daily deprivation
On my tenth birthday -wearing my pearls A life – This is the eighth instalment of an autobiographical series before I revert to my normal blogs) There was a legend that there were no birds in Belsen,...
View ArticleA soldier’s life is terrible hard! (says Alice)
A life – another instalment of my autobiography before I revert to my normal blogs Gentle in manner, resolute in deed, was the motto of the lady-like group of women I now joined – no rifles,...
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