Happy Birthday Dad.

OCTOBER 2018. An audible ‘ping’ on my smartphone alerted my attention to a change of my roster at work. I have been here now for 4 months learning about the company, learning the technical aspects of the Aircraft they want me to fly and sitting yet more exams to prove it has sunk into this […]

I am using it now…

It was wrapped in a huge, light blue, plastic tarpaulin and cocooned around the edges in cheap rolls of light brown packing tape that kept the gaps closed.  I looked at it one last time before I made the final wrap and slowly the dark brown leather disappeared into mummification for what I thought would […]

D Day. Three years later.

  I am sat in a field in Northern France.  I’m not moving at all, it is silent and I can see the rolling, green and pleasant countryside for miles in just about all directions.  Looking left I can see a beautiful, resplendent old stone farm complex with pale blue wooden shutters keeping out the […]