THE COLONEL’S JOURNAL PART ONE. Being the tongue-in-cheek diary of a rather irascible and ( at least, as far as his tall tales go ) somewhat Munchausen-like, peppery English colonel, now resident in Spain, along with his good lady wife, the Memsahib, as he calls her. At least, I think it’s tongue in cheek! Woke up with pounding head this a.m. Thought for one moment I was back in Rhodesia, hearing the drums thudding away like mad. ( n.b. must get used to calling the damned place Zimbabwe. )... Sign in to see full entry.