Don't Worry Sir It's Only Pain

<p>My book is about five years of my life serving in the Royal Navy between 1965 and 1970 and travelling the world. </p><p>It is full of travel experiences often outlandish and funny stories humour and wry observations of life in the Navy and in general.</p><p>It is designed for a universal rather than a military audience and is intended to entertain. </p><p>It describes my experiences during tough training serving on an aircraft carrier and finally small coastal minesweepers which still managed to traverse the oceans. </p><p>It tells of using charts originally created by Captain Cook and updated by a reverend and a 13-year-old Midshipman in 1856 visiting former headhunters in Borneo and sweeping live mines the Strait of Malacca 20 years after the Second World War. </p><p>The ship was also blessed with the birth of a baby boy born at sea 200 miles from Fiji and named after our youngest 17-year-old crew member.</p><p>I enjoyed travelling to some really remote areas that are still off the tourist track even today. It was a unique and humbling experience I will never forget.</p><p>I do hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I have enjoyed writing it.</p><p>I do hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I have enjoyed writing it.</p>