Do you know who are you? Are you on a journey of self discovery? I am preparing to immerse myself in an edit. Sarah Westcott from the Addendum Agency has come back to me with notes on how to …

Real Life: How posh are you?
I love watching tv shows about rich people and posh people. Made in Chelsea is my guilty pleasure, although I can only watch it sporadically as I find it utterly vacuous; yet it’s so awful that it’s so good. It’s …

Real Life: Afghanistan Withdrawal – View From My Home Front
The war in Afghanistan is finally over for UK Plc, and yesterday the closure of Camp Bastion was announced. I thought as a tribute to a conflict that dominated my family life for over a decade, I would collate some of the …

Real Life: Unsupportive Wife Ruins Soldier’s Career
Recently, over lunch I heard an interesting tale about a military drink’s party where the military top brass were bitching like twittering birds amongst their peers about the disappointment they felt that a young, up and coming soldier, who had …

Real Life: PA to my Children – Is it time to get a job?
The last few years have been a rollercoaster, which I hope is finally running straight and offering the children stability. The Grenade is now attending my old school, which was once a comprehensive but is now an academy. How things have …