Good things come to those who wait

Commando training is not always terribly useful once a Royal Marine has left 3 Commando Brigade. Being able to tune a high-frequency radio in the dark is unlikely to be helpful in civvy street. Leopard-crawling and fireman’s carries are not usually high on the ‘desirable skills’ section of a job specification. My wife is a trained police interviewer and I’ve exhausted all my resistance-to-interrogation techniques in our 17 years of marriage; it turns out that police questioning techniques are better.

“I hoped that the strong smell and small pieces of sardine would draw Charlie in”

So it was refreshing this week to discover that I am still quite handy at waiting and lying still and that this is still a useful occupation.

I became adept at waiting-and-lying-still while playing