61st anniversary ....
8th
May 2019 (Wednesday)
.... 09.00 Lerwick would seem to be
the place
to be if you want sunshine this morning; Lerwick, or ‘Sunny Sussex later in the
morning. Us? Oh we’re having light rain for most of the
day, though at least it isn’t windy.... as yet;
and it (the rain) should clear away by tomorrow.
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| Aldershot May 1958. |
I’m
not suggesting that I’m feeling old, but it was 61 years ago today that I
arrived at ‘The Home of the British May 1958.Army’, (Aldershot) to begin my two years of
National Service in the R.A.S.C.; happy
days.
19.00 A lot of things have happened today: I remembered the Friendship Lunch... I
remembered to go to the dentist .... and, my three photo/pictures arrived. That all happened after I had also
remembered to go for the papers (it’s East Fife Mail day) and have morning
coffee with the troops.
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| The three photo canvases. |
As
ever the Friendship Lunch was superb, nice soup and sandwiches, and of course
loads of friendly chat. George’s friend,
Warren from the ‘Mackie Housing’, turned up .... but ... not George. I had to leave sharp-ish to give me time to
go home and clean my teeth, and make myself pretty for the dentist. By the time I got to Anstruther the rain was
in heavy mode ... and being driven by a very frisky easterly wind. The weather has been like that ever since
.... even at the Centre of the Universe.
The
dental appointment didn’t take long, and I was back out and in the car within
20 minutes. That’s the Dentist for
another six months.
I
am happy with my photo pictures; all I have
to do is hang them. To do that I have
to re-arrange the pictures that are already on the wall I want to use, My reason for having some photographs
printed on canvas is simple: when I am older,
and perhaps less able, I will have a selection of my photos to look at. They look better as pictures on a wall, than they do on the computer
screen. In fact my job for tomorrow
will be to sort out the hanging space.
I would like to, eventually, have a dozen or so on walls. The weather forecast is better for
tomorrow; cloudy and windy, but dry
mostly. It could be a good day for
pottering around Ivy.
