Tag: remembrance
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Taking to the streets
For the first year in a long time I’m not involved in this year’s Civil Act of Remembrance, and it’s given me a moment to consider some of the wider implications of the event less connected with the thing itself. I’m not ill, but Janet was covid positive for fifteen days solid and only went […]
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Lockdown Remembrance
Well, that went ok. You cannot imagine the number of conversations, video meetings, guidance emails from national and local government, local government associations and British Legion, risk assessments and “informed commentary” we’ve dealt with over the past months… Our parish clerk has kept up to date with the vacillating and often contradictory pronouncements from various […]
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An Environmental Remembrance
I’ve just taken delivery of the Remembrance wreath that I will lay, on behalf of the Parish and alongside many others, on Remembrance Day. Remembrance is important. In these times more perhaps than at any other time in my life, the honouring of the fight against fascism and the survival of freedoms we take so […]
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A day in the life – Remembrance
Previously blipped on my daily journal (ie not this one) at https://www.blipfoto.com/Incredibish Awake at silly o’clock, because Janet is on gate duty and has to open the village hall for six thirty. Because she’s then wide awake, there is vacuum cleaning from seven… At eight thirty I go and set up the public address system […]
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Remembrance
It all comes around again, and this year Remembrance was actually on Sunday 11th November, and at eleven o’clock plus or minus we held ourselves quietly and remembered those who ensured we had the chance to make this land as we chose. The parish council took over the organisation of our village Remembrance ceremony last […]