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@OfficerofEngin1 You need to write Sir. Then a dog. Job/responsibility for someone who wipes their arse on your carpet, much like us Sappers who u looked after before.😬 In all seriousness your post however whining and cringe it was, flowed and engaged. Write, settle, live again- you earned it

A life moment today. Time to make some impossible decisions. I moved to Japan just before Covid struck with my wife, dog, cat, and life savings in tow. We were fleeing a life that had been turned upside down by seven miscarriages, and Japan was our fresh start. Our big plan was to open an English-style garden center. We had set plans in motion and spent a lot of money, but then Covid arrived. The plans stopped, the money disappeared, and we were forced to rethink. My background was in oil and gas and, of course, the British Army. I had contacts, but I was out of the loop and my salary would reflect that. Nevertheless, that was the plan: buy a cheap rural property and live the good life growing our own vegetables and rearing chickens and bees. The cat died just as Covid was waning, and the dog passed soon after. I think the miscarriages had made me somewhat numb to loss, but I mourned Polly the cat and Chatham the dog, and on we went. And then Yuki died one morning on her way to the train station. I wasn't with her; there had been no warning. The world ended. I didn't know what to do. I was 50, in a foreign country, family gone, friends gone, purpose gone. I dug in. I bought a house that guaranteed seclusion, and I thought about Yuki and stood guard over the memory of "us," determined that it still had some meaning and that someone remembered how special it was. I tend her grave, and that is the only time I ever feel like I have purpose. That’s been my role for four years now—living a future that I don't want and have no interest in. I can't move on, so I wait and the months pass. It's no way to live. Yesterday morning, I went to the office and was handed a long list of site visits and office trips throughout Asia. It would mean hotel rooms and being away for most of the remainder of the year. I left the paper on someone's desk and walked out, effectively giving notice. On the drive home, I stopped by a river at the base of the mountain where my house is located and sat by it for a couple of hours. I tried to imagine a path forward, tried to feel some purpose or drive to do anything but go back to the house and waste away. I considered briefly throwing myself in, but that's not me; I have far too many romantic notions to throw my life away. Much better to go down swinging, spitting in the face of the foe. I looked around, but there weren't any incoming hordes of orcs to facilitate a last stand, so I went back to the car and found that I had a puncture. Oddly, that snapped me out of it. It was just my luck to be in a place so low that I was a hair's breadth from giving up, and now the car had a puncture. If it had started raining, it would have been perfect. I changed the wheel and drove home.

This wins X formerly Twitter today.

I don’t think you have even the slightest grasp of how defence infrastructures are integrated, especially when it comes to the USA. They have over ten thousand American personnel over 12 major airbases on British soil and lease or use a further ten sites taking it to about 22 US military sites in Britain. Pretending you’ll “stop” this if you were in charge is childishly absurd and displays the kind of juvenile ignorance which demonstrates why you are even less suited for office than the nitwits currently in charge, which is really saying something. Replacing nitwits with a moonbat is not an upgrade.

@K4rmaRules England says good riddance.

Congratulations Scotland. I can't wait till Wales can do the same.

@GriftReport @Worcs_Forager Who cares? Both will end up in jail.

Mizzy is now pranking people...using his son...this is so so wrong.

@history99917180 I’m just glad smiling Borthwick will soon be gone, Italy is making leaps and bounds, and Wales, which is still a huge rugby nation has found their mojo again. It’s shite what your RFU is going through, much like the catastrophe in Australia.

@history99917180 Ah! Makes sense, many favours lost from the opening game😉

My thoughts today are with the porridge gobblers who have to support the England rugby team tonight. Your ancestors will not be amused.

@history99917180 Lol doesn’t matter, your anti English hatred trumps nothing.

If you agree.Please RT👍

Gene Simmons is absolutely 100% correct.These celebrities should just "Shut the f*ck up".

@ACTBrigitte Death sentence available?

Are you kidding me? They are terrorists.

@NotHoodlum @militaryhistori Distasteful from all sides. Grow the fuck up children.

Bush on why he quit golf during the war: “I didn’t want some mom whose son may have died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best I can. And I think playing golf during a war sends the wrong signal.” Senile Satan: 👇

@Dw74406Williams @FraserNelson Ffs you can’t even type our…..

@FraserNelson We will be on are way soon

Britain’s bases in Cyprus felt like the safest place on earth when I was growing up there. Not any more. Cyprus’s plea for help - answered by France with no UK ships around - is a landmark in British military decline. My column:- times-comment.com/cyp5

@Sutton1Mr My company tried to raise plunging moral recently and said we’ll order pizza and have a get together. It was kyboshed by the statement “but Ramadan?”

@Sutton1Mr Most jobs everywhere now. The ‘new’ workforce from abroad kills social cohesion, work, neighbours, nation. Why talk/discourse with people who’d kill you without a blink if they could?🤷🏻‍♂️

I was speaking to my neighbour this morning.Ex copper with 30 years behind him. And he said every copper he knows around his age is just treading water waiting for their pension.He said morale is at rock bottom.Ex military and working class lads in the force are being replaced with indoctrinated middle class graduates. It was quite sad really.He said even the social side has gone. Where they used to feel part of a family. Now it's just a tick boxing job.

@zarahsultana As a survivor of the Manchester Arena bombing, I witnessed firsthand what radical Islamists love doing to kids. Just saying. Oh and fuck you.

7th March, 2009 Sapper Mark Quinsey aged 23 from Birmingham, and Sapper Patrick Azimkar, aged 21 from London, both of 38 Engineer Regiment, were shot dead outside Massareene Barracks in Antrim, by members of the cowardly Real IRA Lest we Forget these brave young men 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@OfficerofEngin1 Thank god I was there when it was 32AER, largest regiment in the Army, not like you field mice.😬

32 Regiment Royal Engineers are the only Sapper regiment with a height requirement, with all 32 Sappers coming in under 4 inches

@beard9982 Ooft! Musty itch grooves 😉

@Ubique166 Its my hotel room in Rome, 370 for 4 nights!

Looks like a cell in Neinburg guard room!