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           <title>Last posting from Afghanistan</title>
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  Column Part 18 I was planning to write this last epistle from the turquoise shores of Cyprus, but due to ‘circumstances beyond our control’ it is not to be. There are two things certain in this
  life; that some poor sap is going to hand in their ticket if they are a guest at a country house-party in an Agatha Christie yarn and that those magnificent men and their (not so frequently) flying
  machines will throw the odd spanner in the works. These same spanners may have been better utilised on repairing the aircraft, and the upshot being we never reached Cyprus. On the plus side I was
  able to spend a day in an aircraft hangar in Muscat. And so it is with a Scotch within easy lifting distance and the welcoming Yorkshire drizzle outside, that this attempt at closure takes place.
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           <title>Dreaming of conkers and single malts</title>
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  AS I sit down to write, we have exactly a week of our tour in Afghanistan left to complete. It would be foolish in the extreme to tempt dear old providence at this juncture, so I shall resist the
  urge.
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           <title>Pomegranates and power cuts as the Taliban pushed back</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[We now find ourselves at the halfway point of our ‘angry camping sojourn’ in the district of Panjwa’i. Life is getting busier as what was once our own little outpost is now
  co-habited with a variety of others, both Coalition forces and Afghans. Do not confuse this with an uplift in convenience and quality of life, although I do tell all that their tolerance for others
  will make for a culturally enriched life. Sometimes I mean it.
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           <title>A moonlit shower with the locals</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Luckily for the discerning reader, I have been unable to access any means of communicating with you for the last two weeks, but as they say; ‘every silver lining has a cloud…..’ My band of merry
  men and I are now to be found in a district called Panjwa’i, some fifteen miles south-west of Kandahar city. Our small camp is nestled between two mountain ridgelines of Pyrenean (not to be
  confused with perineum) aspect, and about three hundred metres from the green zone that sprouts around the nearby Arghandab River. There is a degree of notoriety afforded Panjwa’i as a result of
  being the place from which Mullah Omar fronted the Taleban in 1994, and as you would expect local sympathies are wildly divided between insurgents and both international and Afghan security forces.
  We are currently a very tiny cog in an operation to provide security and freedom for the locals by diminishing the insurgent hold on the area.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:49:55 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Taliban target women politicians</title>
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  With all the grim predictability that the White Star Line employees must have had regarding the jewel in their nautical crown about one hundred years ago, as that ever-so-tedious iceberg hoved into
  view, and that the fact that the ship didn’t quite have the turning circle of a polo pony, it is my duty to report that the situation has got worse. Having callously crowed that the amount of
  violence reducing and that a true enemy of soldiers deployed on operations was boredom, it was perhaps inevitable that the last couple of weeks have been anything but.
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           <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:02:15 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Needless purchases and lizards</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  IT was 33 summers ago that The Minstrel, underneath Mr. Piggott won the Derby, that Elvis left the building and that I arrived in the world to much celebration and ward-wide plaudits, except from
  my darling mother who complained to the doctor that ‘he cannot be mine, he is far too ugly’.
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           <title>Back into the fold...</title>
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  For those with refined literary tastes and a disposition towards the witty, insightful and well crafted, my last two weeks of being incommunicado will have been a welcome reprieve. Unfortunately
  for you, I, having just had two weeks rest and relaxation, am now back in the saddle, with a song in my heart, a pen in my hand and a grim determination to mix my metaphors.
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           <title>Enormous confidence in General Petraeus</title>
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  When away from home, there are certain triggers that induce the longing to be in England in these summer months, and over the last few weeks these have been manifold; catching the sun-soaked
  snippets of Wimbledon, not losing money backing French raiders at Ascot, being sent photographs by friends at Henley CC.
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           <title>&quot;It is very easy to pass judgement from trendy Hoxton...&quot;</title>
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  A wonderful conversational reprieve arrived this week in the form of a flying visit from my Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) brethren, Capt ‘Spike’ Lee.
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           <title>Sky versus Scoop</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Without wishing to erode the gossamer-thin veneer of machismo and testosterone afforded me by my current situation. I would like to thank my mother publicly for her recent aid-package, and
  specifically for the char-grilled artichoke hearts in extra virgin olive oil. Delish.
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           <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:27:41 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Speaking out for the Playstation generation</title>
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  For those with an interest in such things, there is all manner of facial hair and beard-based goings-on in Kandahar Province.
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           <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>No shortage of equipment</title>
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  There has been much media coverage in recent years over an alleged systemic failure of our military/government/whoever to provide the army with the ‘kit and equipment’ it requires in order to
  execute it's missions effectively and with minimum loss of life.
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           <title>The tour's less hairy moments</title>
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  One of the most trivial hurdles to jump when on operations is that posed by the problem of getting a haircut.
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           <title>Glimpses of how it could have been</title>
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  When moving around Kandahar either in our armoured vehicles or on foot, it is hard to travel more than a street without passing flowering oleanders, either long swathes or solitary plants.
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           <title>Raising a glass to one of life's pleasures</title>
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  Sometimes the most innocuous comments, in the most curious of environs, delivered by the most incongruous of people, triggers envious longings and bouts of home-sickness or frustration born of
  circumstance.
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           <title>Making the case for being in Afghanistan</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  One of the few noticeable differences between serving on operations and living in Basingstoke is indirect fire.
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           <title>Afghanistan’s local mules</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  If you think donkeys had it tough in Milne’s post-apocalyptic, anthropomorphical-tragedy masterpiece, ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’, when poor old Eeyore had lost his tail, that is nothing compared to the lot
  of some of Afghanistan’s local mules.
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           <title>&quot;I know few bishops but I expect they don't unwind of an evening with the Old Testament&quot;</title>
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  Working as I am in a multi-national combined service environment, there is all manner of nuance, nicety and niggle that one must observe, mediate and work around.
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           <title>Afghanistan - first impressions</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  County Durham, Oxfordshire, the Gulf Region, Helmand and finally Kandahar constituted my rather circuitous commute to what is to be my home for the best part of the next seven months.
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