I have been engaged in projects I need to finish in time before Christmas. As I told you, loved ones, you are going to get home made presents (if I finish them in time).
I went to the gospel singing at the Senior Centre, I haven't been for a long time, not since I got busy. It was very nice and everybody is so friendly.
I looked round at the seniors, the veterans in their Korean War baseball caps, and reflected on the fact that when I was a child veterans - or old soldiers - were people who fought in the Boer War, and there were quite a few of them about, until I was in my late teens. There was always a good contingent of them among the Chelsea Pensioners at the Remembrance Day Service at the Albert Hall. And as the Second World War finished 69 years ago, there can't have been many servicemen of that war at the Albert Hall this year. I guess like the seniors here, those who were there were from the Korean War.
Nothing like looking back on your nation's wars to realise how old you've become!
Today in history.......
2348 BC. The day of the Flood, you know, when Noah built his Ark and packed all the animals in it. Goodness knows how they worked that out.
1963 The day President Kennedy was buried. He was assassinated on the 22nd. One of those moments in history when we always remember where we were, what we were doing.
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