am an ex-Royal Engineers (1965 - 1989) and had to give up work in August of 2007 to become a full time carer for my wife who suffers from acute bi-polar disorder. For many years my family friends and colleagues have tried to persuade me to put pen to paper to down some of the many 'stories' I would tell at social and family occasions. They likened my to Unc in only fools and horses! I remember when . . . . Eyes would roll and at least one would say, "Pull up a Sandbag" or "Swing the Lights". However the stories were always funny and I would usually have them rolling in the aisle.
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The Continuing Story of Our Lad Ricky by
Michael A Ruston
https://sites.google.com/site/ourladricky/
(Read the ARRSE review at:
http://www.arrse.co.uk/MReviews/op=show/rid=4.html )
Ricky – The Early Years
I have attempted in my books to give a feel of what life was really like for a military family living below the poverty line in the 1950s and early 1960s. In this, the first of the four books, I detail my life from my earliest memories, through my school days, until I eventually joined the Army in the mid 1960s. You are able to follow the numerous scrapes, incidents and often funny, sometimes tragic situations in which I found myself. Arrested by the RMP three times before reaching the tender age of 7!
Our Lad Ricky
In Our Lad Ricky I write about the several abortive attempts I made to join the Army, always failing due to my apparent weakness and ill health. And how, in desperation, I persuaded my best friend and school chum Ben to travel with me to Queen Street, Wolverhampton and take my entrance medical there on my behalf. The book highlights my hesitant, precarious and often hilarious attempts at turning from boy to man, by learning to be a soldier and how, not just once, but twice, I was almost discharged from the Army as 'Services No Longer required'!
Ricky – Green Beret
In Ricky – Green Beret, I cover the period from my arrival in Germany, through a host of mishaps and personal catastrophes. Ricky, having been betrayed by a friend, which almost resulted in a Court Martial was close to eviction from the Army. Meeting and falling madly in love with a country girl, but was it to be?
And then, quite accidentally, Ricky found himself posted to a Commando Unit forming up in Singapore. Although NOT a volunteer ‘Ricky’ struggled through weeks of ‘Beat Up’ and following Commando Training at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, to successfully succeed in winning the much coveted Green Beret. Much to his own surprise and the astonishment of comrades, friends and family!
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I now have a glorious walk through the Dockyard every day. It is beautiful and I arrive at work smiling every morning, even when it's raining. My staff think I am ever so slightly insane (and probably aren't too far off the mark) but I love it.
My journey time has increased significantly but I have chosen to walk ten miles a day and not use the gym so I am actually cutting the working day by half an hour 
I promised myself that I wouldn't work from home now that I have a longer day but this weekend and next I have to or things won't get done for when they need to be. The CO told me to be careful that I don't burn myself out. I'm pacing myself: puppy and I walked into town for a few groceries earlier (she's poorly today  ) and I'm heading off for a nice relaxing bath now. It'll be worth it when everything comes together.
I'm taking a couple of days off in a fortnight for a belated birthday weekend back oop North, then a whole week in March (see below) and another in April when a friend visits at Easter - she's only down for a few days but as it's a Bank Holiday, I might as well take a week and get some R & R.
My Valentine had roses delivered to the office for me yesterday, roll on March when he can come home for his Valentine's treat... 
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gadday ,another bloody day at the caryard,hopes birthday today she is 5,im the luckyest dad alive.true,i will take a picture of the rocket range and put it in the gallery 
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u know what, i hadnt thought about my earlier life in the navy at all,then i stumbled across this site.im in my office ,and i have plenty of time to write ,so i will.had nicole around my house last night,allways a hoot,she is so much like me.iv come to work to day 28.12.2009,raining like hell, going home,early.mr freckels,the ferral cat,happens to be miss freckells,got 4 kittens at the car yard ,oh no????.i really in need of a holiday,if you really want to know a good place to go,i used to go to thailand ,untill i found sabang beach puerto galera mindoro is phillipines,i must of been there 60 time,i stay at action divers with my mate johnno from melbourne,mates, we have had some wild times,haha thats for another time.well im going to buy a bottle of scotch and go home to my poverty pac house ,haha got a big pool though.poppey is my bull mastif,he is cool,unlike his drunken master
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u have a really good sence of humor keep it up
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I took some leave and used some flexi time and today was my first day in work since Thursday afternoon. I actually started to relax on Sunday night.
Monday and Tuesday were bliss and I was spoilt rotten, inclusive of being bought prettiness: -
I wore both pairs today, the platforms in the office and the peep-toes for the Unit Christmas lunch.
Unfortunately, I discovered this morning that the deadline for submitting my presentation for BITS is tomorrow. I was going to write it next week. So here I am, at home, working on my presentation. Oh well. I had arranged a lift and was looking forward to an afternoon and evening of marinading in Tia Maria and Coke...
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I have never seen a meteor shower before.
I heard that there was one around midnight so I headed for the beach - less light pollution.
How absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful.
My old puppy struggled a bit with a second big walk but I warmed up some milk for her when we got in and she's fast asleep now
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Now I really, really need to start singing again.
My ads have nto borne fruit. I guess when people read 'female' vocalist, they think diva type singer. I am not that and never want to be.
I used to wish I could have singing lessons (money was an issue) but when I went back up North to visit friends, one was doing a chairty gig that night. All of the acts were ex -pop idol, -x-factor and cracking vocalists but they all tried a rock song that night and it was painful to listen to. A trained voice does not sing rock in the raw way that it should be sung. 'Sex on Fire' just doesn't lend itself well to vibrato.
Rock is what I am good at and what I love, my voice is powerful and raw.
I miss it sooooooooo much!
As much as I loved doing the panto and will be a part of the next show in some capacity, music is my first love.
*sigh*
The music club at Sultan hasn't been the most forthcoming either, I think that my enthusiasm for what I do weirded out the man in charge a bit too much 
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I have my formal interview coming up and I am worrying over the questions they are going to ask. I have been studying however I don't know that what I am learning is correct. I know all about Raleigh and Phase Two (going to Collingwood). I can't find detailed information about what I am going to learn at Collingwood. So I feel I may fail.
They are looking for people with an understanding of it all, and if I get nervous I may forget and then its all wasted.
Any tips on the questions they are going to ask or where I could find more information about Warfare Specialist training i.e. Above, Below.
The careers adviser told me that in the last 10 interview they have only put through 2!
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