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Sunday
17:36 Nov 29 2009
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What crappy weather we had today. Hail, sleet and the trusted icy rain and all within the past few hours.

I have to admit I am looking forward for the week to start, it’s been a crap weekend with the exception of my visit to my babe. She looked great considering her week off school with the mumps, and she was on form which always makes me happy to be around her. She too is looking forward to getting back to school and into the swing of things.



So I play a game called Mafia Wars … but what’s with these special bonus gifts you get like ‘an extra pair of eyes or hot coffee, gimme the dosh!!!

I just extorted a Corrupt Judge!!!



On with the evening, I feel an early night is in order.

Where to start?
21:28 Nov 24 2009
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Well my daughter has mumps, so it has kept me from seeing her this week but we have a date for this coming weekend. I am so going to spoil her. I have told her to begin her Xmas prezzie list!



I have finished with hospitals for now and am waiting for the results, so I will wait for an appointment from the doc’s as and when (I’m in no mood to chase up that kind of news).



I have been sneezing for the past day or two and desperately need a hot water bottle to cuddle up with.

Apart from all that, work seems to be good to me at the moment and with the new staff recently trained it has lifted the immediate pressure of the job in hand.



Xmas has been sorted and arranged to be at my younger cousins for Boxing Day (27 of us … I’m the odd number!) with Christmas dinner itself being spread among my older cousins. We will do a lunch just for a few of us then off to my other cousin’s for a late feast and adult frolics!

I guess I will be nursing rheumatism and arthritis on the Bank Holiday, just me snuggled up on the sofa and that hot water bottle and a good film!!!

Two minute heart of felt silence.
10:23 Nov 09 2009
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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them."

Fourth stanza of 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon (1869 - 1943)





Remembrance Day is on 11 November. It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts. At one time the day was known as Armistice Day and was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.

Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is usually the Sunday nearest to 11 November. Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain.

My own involvement in the RN has seen me at many of these occasions throughout the years and it amazes me as I look on and hear them play The 'Last Post' which is traditionally played to introduce the two minute silence in Remembrance Day ceremonies. It is usually ' played on a bugle. (In military life, 'The Last Post' marks the end of the day and the final farewell.)



'I noticed that someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also. Here and there an old soldier could be detected slipping unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'. An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern. Everyone stood very still ... The hush deepened. It had spread over the whole city and become so pronounced as to impress one with a sense of audibility. It was a silence which was almost pain ... And the spirit of memory brooded over it all.'



Lest We Forget

The Lord Mayor and I
20:28 Nov 08 2009
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They’ve cut me open, fingered, prodded and poked me, left me black and blue and still found nothing. Next week begins round two. After they are finished with me they really need to tell me that they have found something even if it is not good news.

Home news saw a great turn out for The Lord Mayor’s parade. What the hell is that? Damn you yanks..

Any excuse to educate you all. lol



The Lord Mayor’s procession winds through nearly 800 years of London’s history, marching unscathed through everything from the black death to the blitz. In the 17th century it was inconvenienced by the building site that would later become St Paul’s Cathedral. In the twentieth it was the first event ever to be broadcast live on television. In the 21st, it’s a day out for half a million people, with millions more watching on the BBC.

The loyalty of the Lord Mayor is probably less questionable now than it was in 1215, but the newly elected Mayor must still make his way to the Royal Courts of Justice to pledge allegiance to the Crown, just as Dick Whittington did in 1397 (and again in 1406 and 1419). As you watch the Lord Mayor’s coach go by, remember that someone stood in exactly that spot 450 years ago and marvelled at the sight of a camel on its way to meet Elizabeth I.



The modern procession is over three miles long – 1.3 miles longer than the route it follows – and starts at 11am after an RAF flypast. It travels from Mansion House to the Royal Courts of Justice, where the Lord Mayor takes an oath of allegiance to the sovereign before the Lord Chief Justice and the judges of the Queen’s Bench Division. The procession sets off on the return journey from Victoria Embankment to Mansion House at 1pm and returns to Mansion House at about 2.30, then the day finishes with one of London’s grandest firework displays at 5 o’clock from a barge moored in the Thames between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges.



We call that history ... lol

Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
22:30 Nov 03 2009
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I spent the evening of my birthday with some family members who treated me to a Chinese at that restaurant I have spoken about in other entries. We had fun but I was exhausted as the team at work had made it a very eventful day in general, in fact when we went out to the pub at lunch time I can’t remember going back to work and that included my boss.

The Saturday was Halloween so the guys decided we should go out yet again, this time dressed up some! The meal was great and the waitresses mad great targets.

Then on the Sunday my friend and I had a double birthday celebration (this was planned) which involved eating out again!!!

All this in the week before my big hospital do!



I went red for Halloween..........!!