When does a man feel old?. What are the signs?
Each day, I wake and tell myself, ” it is a good day! ” and then seeing the world around me changing brings me to…
A Policeman’s Lot 15….”If you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t have joined!”
West End Central (Savile Row Police Station, Mayfair) was a big and very busy place….Just like many other large workplaces, It had one group of…
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…