General Chat

Now here's a contentious one.

There was a news item on the television about a charity for forces children. One little girl had parents who had each carried out several tours of duty in Afghanistan.

Now,I am all for people doing what they want if it hurts nobody else but I did feel that little girl had a very rough deal. To have one parent permanently at home while you worry about the other must be hard but to have no parent who you can be sure is coming home must be unbearable, even if there is always one of them at home when the other is away..Little minds blow things up.

In the early nineties I upset an elderly neighbour of mine when I discovered that his soldier niece who was pregnant, married to a soldier and would be staying on in the army after the birth and told him that I considered that wrong especially as the chances of husband and wife being posted together were remote (they were in different regts).

Watched a film last week Valentines Day and Julia Roberts played a USA army captain flying home to see her young son and I said again I think it is wrong.

quite right! women,

with children,

belong in the kitchen!!













wheres me tin 'at...

I feel that they probably would not be planning to stay in the army until they were in their dotage so could, possibly, fully enjoy the experience of being in the army before having children.

It should not necessarily be the mother who stays at home but I just feel their little girl should be more important to them than being on active service.

I think I am right in saying that they would not both be sent to a war zone at the same time.