A Policeman’s Lot 27….The End of the Beginning
Gradually Garry’s training games and exercises began to pay dividends and slowly….very slowly, my boat handling began to improve. Garry was particularly adept at taking…
A Policeman’s Lot 26….Playing Games
With my two weeks on the Basic Boat Handling course now behind me I paraded for my first tour of duty at Wapping Police Station…
30 things.
My laptop failed last week. Refused to boot up. Dead. I did everything I could to revive it without success – and eventually reluctantly decided…
What has happened to this site???
Where is everybody. I used to be able to chat with lots of people. But not I log in and there is nobody. This has…
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…