What’s the fascination with NAAFI Tea? Such a high proportion of visitors to this blog have been looking for information about the NAAFI Tea Break that I thought I’d have a bit of a hunt around to find out a bit more information about NAAFI Tea. And I have to say, I’ve not found a lot.  I’m not sure I fully understand what the fascination is and I wonder about the age range of those visitors.  Is it nostalgia...

Image via Wikipedia HMS Ocean Limps Home! Phew! After 2 days circling the airport (well the port), the capital ship HMS Ocean, finally made it home into the port – with our son on board. Strong winds and a dodgy engine meant the ship couldn’t get into the port safely despite arriving back on Thursday lunchtime. Finally, after hitting the breakwater at 8.15 on Saturday morning the guys were able to get off and we welcomed...

The Kaizen approach (Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the better”) is a philosophy for daily, incremental, improvement. The Kaizen approach was first brought into Japanese businesses after the second world war by the Americans.  The idea is to improve process and quality management by eliminating waste, thus improving time management. In Japanese companies that use the Kaizen principles, it is the...

It has recently emerged, in the press, that many armed forces personnel, some serving on operations, are facing the axe from the armed forces as the government attempt to cut defence spending. There is also talk that the controversial Manning Control Points (MCP’s), that were shelved back in 2002, and have been brought back in to play. Is this the correct way to control numbers in the armed forces?  Well certainly if the reports of...

We have all had times when anger was our response to a given situation, we were unable to keep control.   If you review the event you can usually pick out the trigger that made you lose control.  Often this will be an interruption of some sort, or perhaps a courtesy is not acknowledged.  Imagine: Your on a car journey and while discussing the route, with your wife, the kids in the back keep asking the old favourite “are we nearly...