A Policeman’s Lot 25….The Road to Wapping Pier.
I paraded for my very first day of duty at Wapping on a Monday morning in early April 1988 along with five other successful applicants;…
Just something I wrote 3 years ago.
February 25th, 2018. I woke up this morning and I was thinking about life, how I live life. And it was in terms of parallel…
A Policeman’s Lot 24….A funny thing happened to me on my way to Wapping. Part 2.
And so it was that I found myself parading at Wapping Police Station in a neatly pressed uniform and polished shoes with eleven other applicants,…
Brief History of Tom Crean -Antarctic Explorer
I was pleased with the reaction of the photograph published showing the Dingle Peninsula in Southern Ireland from Killorgan Golf Club. Five of us regularly…
A Policeman’s Lot 23….A funny thing happened to me on my way to Wapping!
After four and a half years on the Diplomatic Protection Group, I began to feel as if I needed a change of role and scenery….The…
A Policeman’s Lot 22….All that glitters is not gold!
Most of my work during my five years in the Diplomatic Protection Group was fairly mundane and was spent looking after various diplomatic premises in…
A Lifelong Love Affair – Part 3.
So with six full days in Ostend, and no car to get about in, we decided to spend 3 days local and go on coach…
A Lifelong Love Affair – Part 2.
So, we are in Ostend. None of us have ever been here before – we are in a strange city in a strange country where…
A Policeman’s Lot 21….The Smug Complainant.
When I first joined the police aged nineteen, one of the first things that we were told at training college was “No matter how good…
The Start of a Lifelong Love Affair.
February 1976. I know it was February because my wife, who was a teacher, was off school – so it must have been half-term. We…