Aphorisms















15 The atheistic style

When I think of lockdown, I remember being at Senior Brecon (don’t laugh), when some Austrian officers doing the course remarked about some mountains we had been talking about: ‘Those aren’t mountains. They’re hills.’

And when a lad I knew in 1 PWRR in Kosovo got charged by the Company Commander because, he had said about a hill near Pristina, which the company had to go running up and down, as part of some difficult PT, was just a ‘miserable bump’.

And this is what I don’t like about the lockdown and this ‘virus’. It’s not worth all the fuss; it’s just a flu.



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