Judging by the sudden nose dive of the score for Duty and Duplicity several readers were not best pleased at the way the story ended. Perhaps they think I have bumped Jack off.
Not a bit of it.
I thought I had strewn plenty of clues as to which way the saga will develop, but to make things perfectly clear let me state here and now ---there will be a book 6 -- Jack will rise again. Stand on me!
I hope it will not be as long a wait between books as last time , but I do have other projects .You may recall 'Tales from an ex Brat' are culled from an on line magazine to which I contribute -- 'First and Last', the journal of the 81st Entry of RAF Halton Apprentices.
Last Saturday I attended a reunion of said entry in Birmingham, that is Birmingham West Midlands, not Birmingham Alabama, although it took as long for me to reach the former by road as it would to reach the latter flying from the UK.
As you can imagine members of the illustrious 81st Entry are of riper years, mature, verging on the mouldy, and it is a moot point as to which will run out first ; contributors to the magazine or readers of the magazine.
It will be a close run thing.
When the last man standing turns out the lights he will deposit the 50 plus journals into the hands of the RAF Museum as a treasure trove of anecdotes, articles, and histories, of over 60 years of experiences of the 300 boys who comprised the entry when first assembled. Historians; military, aviation, social, and family, will find many and varied goodies within the pages of the archived journals.
However, an archive is as only as useful as the index to it, and I have set myself the job of indexing the journals. When I returned home, and sobered up, I realised what a ginormous task I had set myself, even your man Hercules would have given it a miss. So I ask my reader to bear with me. I will try and multitask ,which will be a first for me, but nothing ventured nothing gained, and fair heart never fu … well, you know what I mean.
Best regards
Jack