"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers. So he marches with the Chief to a great big plain on the top of a mountain, and the Chiefs men rushes into a village and takes it; we three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy".
Kipling "The Man Who Would Be King"
First though - I was out on Gertrude this week and took these at the southernmost point of the journey, while slurping a flat white from the adjacent café..
..a bunch of rocks to most, but for those of us in the know [clicky], those concrete blocks are some of the remains of a WW2 Mulberry construction site - they built Phoenix (type C) caissons on this very beach - in fact I was sat on one of the anchor blocks to drink that coffee - amazing, eh?
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| Picture credit: Mike Beel collection |
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...and look what arrived in the post this week - now what could that mean?? 😁
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Laters, as the young people are want to say...