Bright and breezy ....

13th May 2026 (Wednesday)     10.00 .... We have a bright morning, with a lot of sunny

spells between  the clouds, that are scuttling over of a brisk NNE wind.   It's good drying wind so I hung out a small washing:   it's not as cold as I expected it to be in the garden.    I imagine it will be chilly on the beach.   This will be a 'rest day' for me, after the excitement of the past few days.

20.00    It has been a good say for watching the television;   which was lucky for me because, with the wind being from the North and cold, I have to stay in and warm.  I did have a short walk down to Ferry Corner between  showers in the afternoon, and had a spell in The Hutte, but I didn't go 'out and about'.

WE had the King's Speech in the House of Lords in the late morning, so that was interesting;  and, with the pomp and Ceremony that goes with it also very colourful.   In the meantime, in the background, the Labour Party Lemmings are on the move.   Anyway,  I enjoyed the King's Speech, and the ceremonial that goes with it.   Strange thing was that is brought a long forgotten event to mind.

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In 1957, a teacher (Bob Dunsmuir) from Kirkcaldy Technical College, and  two fifth yea apprentice painters and decorators, Jack Smart (from Dysart Co-operative Painting Dept. and Alberto (Balcarres Estate Apprentice) went to London to spend a week at the Sanderson Wallpaper Factory, finding out all about the making of wallpaper.   Sanderson was, and still is,  the top of the range in wallpaper manufacturing.   Actually this could take a lot of time, because it was such an interesting and enjoyable week:  so I'll cut to the bit that fell out of some corner of my memory, with the King's Speech today.

One of the things Jack and I, got to do was hang some really valuable wallpaper, in trial cubicles.    The paper I got had a surface of gold leaf;  the whole toll was an embossed patterned with a thin layer of gold leaf.  My job was to hang it on the cubicle walls to see how it handled and looked.   It's final destination was going to be a room in the House of Lords.   Anyway to cu a long story short, I hung it, and it looked good, and passed all the tests to be used in the room.    My next, and final job at
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Sanderson's was to strip the said wallpaper off the cubicle walls, put it all in bags to be taken to a 'recycling' area where the gold was separated from the paper, ready to be turned into gold leaf and used again.   Thar was one really interesting week I can tell you.   That's the reminiscing  over;  until the next time something falls out of some corner of my memory!

That was my first time in London, and though I have been there a few rimes since I have never visited the Palace of Westminster, so never got a chance to find out about the 'gold' room.   I have no doubt that it will have been redecorated since then;  though wallpaper, with a golf leaf surface,  would last for a very long time!

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I've had a good, and enjoyable day;  the weather has been mixed right enough.    Luckily for me I was in The Hutte when the first shower came over, so was in a position to rescue the washing!   It turned out to be a shower of hailstones!   That reminds me, I could iron it after this update.    

Today's photographs are all  courtesy the BBC News Channel.    

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