Arts
Æthelberht’s RFA Christmas
I know there’s plenty of former Pusser types on GP, and even a few who have sailed under the red duster. They’ll all be familiar with the Christmas routines for their respective outfits. I thought [more…]
Æthelberht
Arts
Father Christmas
I wanted to write a seasonal piece for GP, but I’m a totally rubbish cook so a recipe is out of the question. What could I do instead? How about a brief history of Father [more…]
Biography
The Right Way To Put Out A Fire (Finally)
In March 2013 I was appointed to RFA Fort Austin. Within NATO she is classified as an AFSH, that’s to say a combat stores ship with the necessary facilities on board to embark a helicopter. [more…]
Arts
Revolution and Swamp Draining
Introduction If our traitorous, gurning, cowardly, yet ruthless and self serving hag of a Prime Minister passes this farce of a withdrawal agreement through parliament, then I would expect there to be either: civil unrest/rioting, [more…]
Biography
Still Not The Right Way To Put Out A Fire
You may remember some months back I related a story of my first fire exercise sailing under the Red Duster. I was somewhat unimpressed having come from a different seafaring outfit where these things were [more…]
America
US Midterm Results
I stayed up until 3am when it was clear the “Blue Wave” (TM) wasn’t happening. Highlight of the night for me was when the live chat on The Young Turks livestream was taken over by [more…]
Engineering
The Fastest Airliner You’ve Never Heard Of
Well here we are for the second part of this series of interesting aeroplanes you’ve probably never heard of. There’s quite a few good candidates for these articles and a few which stand out particularly [more…]
Arts
A Brave New World
Consider if you will, just how much our society has changed in your lifetime. I’m fully aware that at the age of 37 I’m one of the younger denizens of Going Postal, yet I can [more…]
Engineering
Stalin’s Hammer
This is the first of what I hope will be a series on slightly less well known aircraft which are nonetheless very interesting. My choice for the first subject of the series is perhaps not [more…]