Mental Wiring

Bulford (3 UK Div) 206 Signal Squadron 1997 I arrived at Bulford on a bit of a downer in May 1997, as I wanted to get posted to York as it was closer to Liverpool, because even after almost two years in, I was getting a bit fed up with being away from Liverpool and got home every weekend I could.  I was also in between my Uncle Frank passing and finding my Auntie Ann being seriously ill - although we (my Dad and myself) were unsure what it was for.  She was to pass a month later. Militarily, things didn't particularly start well when the shite started raining down after my first PT session.  I'm not sure if it was a bog-standard squadron run, or if it was where we did a basic fitness test which involves running a mile and half in a group then running a mile and half under your own steam to get as quick as possible time, within a set time.  Whatever it was, I was berated for either not being quick enough and/or not having enough stamina.  I had hardly done any PT...

 A little about me and my reasoning for the blog: I'm Ian, currently a 51 year old man - if this around long enough, or even myself - originally from Bootle/Liverpool, and have been living in Ireland for almost 18 years.  My main core interests are sport of many different types, but would be a great lover of Liverpool F.C. (which will have some relevancy fairly soon), music, international cinema, history, science/medical/biomedical, nature, quizzes, alcohol (althought this might be on the wane now) and looking to widen my ICT knowledge and skills.  This is my third foray in to getting a blog constantly wrote and updated, and I am really hoping this one sticks around because I feel this could have some legs including hopefully for some public interaction and activation, because all our experiences are different somehow. I have had a long history of mental health problems, more specifically with depression and anxiety; I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia whilst at the Univer...