The Secret Hours is well worth reading/listening to. Sort of a prequel to all of it.

I’ve done a lot of diving in the UK and totally agree! The bliss of getting into the water after the discomfort of standing fully kitted up waiting to step off the boat…

My Wife’s cousin, L/Cpl Michael Campbell, Royal Welsh is inscribed on the wall there. He was shot by a Taliban sniper on Op Herrick and tragically died three years later after surgery to his wounds.

Aerospace Engineering lecturer.

More like the Bully’s thick mate who’d follow him around everywhere.

“Here is the lunch menu…”

Christmas Mints.

He was on my wife’s degree course at UCL. She just knew him as a bloke called Chris who had a band called Coldplay who were quite good.

I suppose clubmen are creatures of habit…

I bought my copy of Brave Lives when I was actually at the Travellers Club. The hall porter had to go off and find a copy from a cupboard, which he then dusted off for me before handing it over. Not sure why but this whole transaction just felt right 😂