I enclose a copy of a journal I kept in relation to my work as a cleaner and as an employee of HMS _____ since June of last year. It reflects a situation which, I think you will find is significantly at variance with company policy as expressed in the HMS _____ staff handbook. It is also at variance with policy I have seen stated in a Royal Navy handbook. I am leaving my employment with HMS _____ very soon and this is partly because of the situation reflected in the journal - Gareth Rees 2008.
The son of a Welsh clergyman' Gareth Rees works as a cleaner at a naval base in Portsmouth during the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Reflections on theology, menial labour and the oppression of cleaning staff. Gareth Rees’s writings have appeared in the Guardian, Contemporary Review, No Such Thing as a Free Ride? series of travel anthologies, and BBC Radio. Gareth died in Portsmouth, April 2018.
A Cleaner's Diary by Gareth Rees read by Miss Denise Harrop. Featuring Larry Love of Alabama 3. Original music The Adults Of Farthing Wood Theme and The Big Sea & the Small Sea by Elliot S Nash. No More Racing by Gareth Rees performed by Gareth Rees and Charlene Day. Produced by Lee Cooper.
Audiobook produced by Alexander Sebley 2022. Special thanks to Miss Denise Harrop and DeXter Bentley. First aired on The DeXter Bentley Hello Goodbye Show on Resonance 104.4 FM June 2022.
Paperback available at: 137albionroad@gmail.com
Produced by Alexander Sebley and Tom Sykes.
