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One of the advantages, or disadvantages, of military relationships is the inevitable long and frequent separations. They say that ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’ and I think this is true. There is something romantic and enduring about long distance love. The pining, the aching, the yearning and the days spent dreaming and longing to [...]

THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER ANNOUNCED AS LOCATION FOR ‘THANKS, SOLDIER’ CAMPAIGN ‘Thanks, Soldier’, the online campaign recently launched by ABF The Soldiers’ Charity has announced The White Cliffs of Dover as the iconic British landmark venue where it’s interactive Union Jack will be projected at the close of 2011. Launched at the beginning of [...]

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Chickens and Hand Grenades The first time I ever threw a hand grenade was quite a tense occasion….you are gripped with performance anxiety and quite rightly so! When you throw a cricket ball or a stone, they won’t kill you if you fluff the throw and it drops at your feet. Unfortunately, the L109A1, which [...]

Shoulder to Shoulder With All Who Serve This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Poppy Appeal, and as this week leads up to Remembrance weekend, focus is on how the nation can support The Royal British Legion. For the past few years, the Legion have provided an official Twibbon for social media users to [...]

First, rule of fight club is that you don’t talk about fight club. What I mean is the military unwritten rules are ‘what goes onboard stays onboard’ so therefore, the media are very hard pushed to find anyone who will talk to them, until now. There is me. I am happy to talk to the [...]

*Warning – ranting!!* I am beginning to hate the British newspapers. For some reason, we always buy The Sunday Times and I think I am going to have to change my paper – maybe buy The Guardian or The Telegraph. I have no doubt that they will still piss me off. The London bourgeois elite [...]

Before Hagar went off to war, I interviewed him. You can watch that interview here: Hagar Goes To Afghanistan And now he’s back – I interviewed him again. You can watch this interview here: Hagar Is Home I think it’s interesting if you can find the time to watch them both because the tone is [...]

First, of all I have to tell you that I am not an ‘Army wife’. I am the estranged wife of an ‘air force’ pilot – a person who is the Royal Air Force. It’s a point that those not in the military fail to see the difference and so, invariably, I am referred to [...]