Alice Band's Diary ; I Am Alice Band, Wife of a Naval Officer and Mother of Four Children. What Follows Is the Story of My Busy - but Always Complicated - Life...

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Having spent 20 years watching my husband as he emerged like a military butterfly through various ranks, from a fresh-faced Petty Officer to sage old Commander, I always admired his capacity to get up at ungodly hours to get to work, whether it be to drive back to Portsmouth on a Monday morning, join a ship or be behind the various desk jobs the Royal Navy appointed him to. I can only now, genuinely appreciate how truly hellish it must have been as, by some perverse karma, it is Hubby who is now seeing me off. It is he who is making me a cup of tea in the morning while it is still pitch black outside and he who is waving and blowing me kisses farewell as I drive off down the road, far, deep into the bowels of Cornwall as I wend my merry way to my first 'placement' school.

I wish I could say that it is only what I deserve, but in the last 20 years, I have been conscious only a handful of times when Hubby has crept out of the house at the crack of dawn and I'm sure that was when I was breastfeeding. So, I am truly grateful that he has not decided to throw a nasty two-fingered gesture at me from under the duvet as I put on the 'big' light and fling open my wardrobe and deliberate what to wear, or indeed curse me for having my hairdryer on maximum speed. Indeed, he has been gracious and good natured and in fact only too glad to get a morning cuddle that he would otherwise forgo were I back to my, never-to-beseen-again, pre- teaching days.

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Alice Band's Diary ; I Am Alice Band, Wife of a Naval Officer and Mother of Four Children. What Follows Is the Story of My Busy - but Always Complicated - Life...

The fact that I am up to my eyeballs in paperwork and a learning curve so steep that it is vertiginous, has perhaps made me overlook the fa...

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