another journey
I have a cousin by the name of Pat Lyddiard from Woodford Green who received an MBE for some 60 years of service a few…
The blanket and the missing corpse. (A short story by elm – work in progress)
Note: only started typing this up this afternoon, but thought to ‘let you in’ on my silly story. I’ll post more as I go along. A…
A Policeman’s Lot 14….Cupid’s Arrows
Up to now I have only dealt with my life in the 1970’s from the point of view of being a young police officer working…
A Policeman’s Lot 13….”If you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t have joined!”
It is a very little known fact….Policemen do have a sense of humour!….On occasions that sense may be slightly weird….Some might even say warped….But nonetheless…
A Policeman’s Lot 12….Big Problems in Little China
In my last blog post I mentioned that there were two episodes that stood out in my memory from my time crewing Charlie One…..The second…
Is it just me?
I can find little to watch on the brussels’ broadcasting communists various television channels after Mr Osmond’s various quiz shows, so often have to resort…
A Policeman’s Lot 11….Tales of ‘Charlie One’
Each Metropolitan Police division would have a number of ‘Area Cars’ on duty for each shift. Each car would be crewed by an ‘Advanced’ driver…
A Policeman’s Lot 10….J.R Comes to London.
They say that “A man never forgets his first love” and I certainly believe that to be true. As I write this post I can…
A Policeman’s Lot 9…. The Great Flying Gateaux Saga.
Friday and Saturday nights were always the two busiest nights of the week. On these nights the West End of London would be packed with…
A Policeman’s Lot 8….Faceless Men in a Nameless Office
It has been a long held belief of mine that somewhere deep in the bowels of the Metropolitan Police headquarters at New Scotland Yard there…