We passed Sh!t Creek in 2006 when we entered Helmand with a single battlegroup, we are now lost in the middle of Sh!t Ocean.
Our boat is leaking (built by British Waste-O-Space with a second to be built in a marginal Scottish constituency)...
One paddle has broken, the spare paddle (taken as a capability holiday in 2010) is currently being sourced by a 'smart procurement' civil servant at DES...
Our boat is surrounded by a fleet of ISIS/AQ/Russian rigid raiders taking pot shots...
...and there is an ominous post-election, post-Afghan shaped thundercloud on the near horizon, threatening to sink the boat with an 'agile, adaptable and capable' flavoured lightning bolt.
Good luck to all who stay!
