The BBC is reporting that the British Armed Forces are currently struggling with retention of personnel because morale has been damaged by increasing levels of operational commitment:
The strain of operating at full capacity in Afghanistan and Iraq has left the services “deteriorating”, a defence select committee report says.
Personnel do not get enough rest [...]
No, the title of this post isn’t about Jo and I having a knife fight, nor even some sort of weird sexual shenanigans. Jo works for the wonderful people down at the National Blood Service and I was her first victim of the day.
I’d never been before. This wasn’t due to any particular fear of [...]
Well, it seems that I’ve neglected to write anything on here in over three weeks. Well, quite a lot has been going on and I shall write some back-dated posts sooner or later.
In the meantime, I’ll just say that we had a great holiday in Canada and other parts of the Northwest Pacific and really [...]
New Year’s Day started with a headache and slight nausea. OK, quite a bit of nausea. I’d have been fine if I’d just stuck to the moonshine but there was also some Tequila in there two, plus a considerable quantity of beer. Still, despite my poorlyness we had another hearty breakfast courtesy of the lovely [...]
We managed to pack quite a bit into New Year’s Eve. Jen and James are moving to Oregon in a few weeks and are going to be renting a rather nice house in a place called The Dalles. This is a quaint small town at the end of the old Oregon trail and we paid [...]
Sunday 30th of December saw us determined to head off over to Mount Hood to try our hand at skiing. I’d never been before but Jen and James are old hands so we decided to risk our necks on the slopes during a rather heavy snow-storm.
We rose early and had a hearty breakfast courtesy of [...]
Saturday 29th of December 2007 I woke up with a hell of a hangover. I really had no-one to blame but myself – well, myself and those bastards at the Pike Brewing Co for making such delicious beer.
Luckily the rain was holding off long enough for us to head out and see the Space Needle [...]
Well, we have been pretty much without internet for the last few days so I’m catching up with our rather eventful New Year now. I’ve been taking hundreds of photos from all sorts of wonderful places and had a great time, so if I didn’t get to speak to you or send you a message [...]
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