One of the towns we visited was Neuve Chapelle and oone of the things we saw there was the Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial ... containing names of Indian troops with no known graves, as well as POW's from both wars who had died and been cremated ...


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OOOps - I didn't get caught up with you all yesterday ... I will try and do better today.  Actually I blame Tim!  Some months ago he challenged me to Scrabble on-line ... I now play against about 10 people on a regular basis, and with most of them I do pretty well.  If I lose it's not a suprise, but my win rate is higher, so that makes me happy.  ( Read more... )

It was certainly a week of no-shows ... 2 clinics, and both were missing people.  Yesterday we had 2, although as somehow the clinic had a double booked slot we were glad one of those was missing.  The theory is with the new computer system that was implimented just before Covid that this should never happen ... well, put it this way it's not the ( Read more... )

.... well, you know the rest of the phrase!

However LJ gave me virtual pressie -

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Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel ( Read more... )

Yes, it's my day to post over at seasonal_spuffy so you will end up getting a  few posts from me this afternoon.

This morning I had another session of grave cleaning.  There were 4 of us and we managed to clean quite a few graves ... so the shoulder aches are for a good reason.

So more posts to come, and hopefully even a set of photos, but will just -

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Yes, a year ago my little man "crossed Rainbow Bridge".  In some ways it feels as if it was only a few days ago that I was talking to him face to face ... but today I drove down to visit his grave.  I cleaned it and left a rose bud from Mum's rose bush.  So there is not much else to do, but I could not have missed the trip for anything.


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I had a great day out yesterday, although the photos are taking a long time to upload, so may have to post them sepertly to this post, we shall see ( Read more... )

Actually what with work in the morning (and despite the leg being strapped, it was sore), after lunch I then went to the cememtery where Mum & Dad are resting.  No, not  to see them but to go on a guided walk with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.  I will admit that much I heard I already knew, but was amazed to find that Bram Stoker's ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's that long since I opened LJ ... however, last week, I did manage to hurt my neck so that took out a few days ( Read more... )