tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post1174325943584193819..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: The Alan Clark DiariesSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-1799560027005633542008-08-31T20:39:00.000+00:002008-08-31T20:39:00.000+00:00I am also a blogger from East Sussex, based in Lew...I am also a blogger from East Sussex, based in Lewes, and have also, coincidentally, blogged about The Alan Clark Diaries, which, like you, I found enthralling.<BR/><BR/>I read the first book a couple of years ago while I was on a very boring course. <BR/><BR/>It kept me alive that week!<BR/><BR/>Clark was refreshingly honest. He wrote exactly what he felt and apparently did not care about the consequences. A rare gift!<BR/><BR/>Very good blog, by the way. I will follow it with interest - and put in a link to you from mine, Oliver's Poetry Garret.<BR/><BR/>Best regards, OliverOlliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17334117174803599416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-28162839919842696382008-08-15T13:57:00.000+00:002008-08-15T13:57:00.000+00:00Alan Clark on the other hand was most charming - h...Alan Clark on the other hand was most charming - he even came to my friend Jill's funeral (she was the protester killed by a lorry at the Live Export protest in Coventry in 1995) and supported an end to the Live Export Trade in Britain.<BR/><BR/>Sadly this evil trade has since re-started - as if the foot & mouth fiasco happened for nothing to demonstrate that transporting food animals in terrible conditions is not a good idea for them (or us) & you would have thought also contravenes any joke of a Govt Environmental policy.The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-50646862245558592008-08-15T09:01:00.000+00:002008-08-15T09:01:00.000+00:00Well I'd heard that he wasn't particularly charmin...Well I'd heard that he wasn't particularly charming, but I didn't realise he was that bad. I hope he got woodworm.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-85921911524682138702008-08-15T06:11:00.000+00:002008-08-15T06:11:00.000+00:00He was loathed and detested by all who knew him, a...He was loathed and detested by all who knew him, a snob and bully - his reputation allowed him to be tolerated and his bad behaviour was excused at all turns. In the camp he had a man to carry him around who he treated as a slave. After the war he rang him at home - the man was flusterd to hear his voice and assumed he had called to thank him - but in fact had only called to see if he had brought his spare wooden leg back, on being told he hadn't - he just said 'You Cunt" and put the phone down.Grey Areahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18240869670530738753noreply@blogger.com