Mutiny on several fronts

photo by Fernando Tucedo

Things have been quite calm at the barracks this week and the old Catering Corps haven't launched a deadly sally for some time. However, no sooner does one front close with its soldiers limping off in defeat, than a new one opens, this time led by the Volunteer Corps who are determined to 'shake things up' They are going to need some serious discipline instilled into them before they run riot all over the Library and plant petunias in the archives.

Surprise but welcome visit from the Major this week. He popped in to fill me in on his latest adventures. He appears to have retired from Commando duties and a series of dubious night-time outings with various members of Royalty and the Brat Pack, but at ninety years of age is still going strong and being thrown out of Annabel's in the wee small hours - good on you major. Managed to wangle an invitation to lunch at Claridge's with him under the pretences of a request for help with my historical research (it's a tough job, as they say, but someone has to do it)

Meanwhile over at the East Indies, the staff are revolting: the chef in the Officer's Mess is refusing them their normal rations and I anticipate a mutiny on the scale of the one in 1857 - our Sepoys are not ones to take events lying down. Maybe they could help me sort out my volunteer problem and form an Army of Retribution.........