Category Archive: Fire Brigade

New York Tunnel 2 Towers 5k run/walk

  This year a very good friend of mine, Andy, called me up, told me he was taking part in the New York tunnel to towers run and wondered if I was interested… Continue reading

The book: Existential Anger – by Ned Alexander

Today I wanted to quickly mention some things about one of my books.  I am a writer and I did start this blog partly to publicise them so it seems somewhat remiss of… Continue reading

Coming out…as being a vegetarian (Or Quorn to be wi-i-i-i-ilddddd!)

  Okay, so let me get this out of the way first.  For any Veggie/vegan police out there interrogating online vegetarian based blogs and posts, the truth is…I eat fish.  There, I said… Continue reading

When my humour falls flat…doh!

  I like to think that I have a reasonable sense of humour though most of my friends are far too polite to point out otherwise, Gawd bless them! But sometimes my humour… Continue reading

Career in the community…(My working life thus far)

Having recently begun this trip along Bloggers’ Lane I have found myself reminiscing about different subjects and have been deciding which to include.  This has led me to reflect on some of my… Continue reading

“Death…hurh, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it again…”

A jolly subject to cheer up an otherwise dull blog…ahem. This blog was inspired by something my sister reminded me of when she fed back on a recent blog I wrote about growing… Continue reading

Memories of 9/11

  Some years back, there coin box ‘public’ telephones installed in all London Fire Stations. These were referred to as the ‘phone under the stairs’.  This was because most of the telephones could… Continue reading

The power of cakes!*

When I was deciding what topic to discuss in this particular blog, I seem to remember feeling awkward about something and wanted to apologise for it but I can’t for the life of… Continue reading

Sometimes defeating ‘The Man’ just takes some patience and a tin of shoe polish.

  Some years ago, when I was still a Firefighter, I had a Governor (Line manager) who showed little tolerance for our station cleaner. In this particular blog this Governor will be playing… Continue reading