New Shoes

Well it's the new year,my tailor wrote to me with a offer,buy one pair get one pair free due to severe winter and recession.
I thought,not a offer to refuse,hand made Italian leather shoes at half price,my last pair lasted 24 years,granted I only wore them as dress shoes (chelsea boots) weddings,christenings ,funerals etc.

Its was mainly as a act of defiance really that I ordered them,thinking they will do for my birthday in May,if I am still beating the Alien.

Here they are....

Well,the end of another chapter,George's headstone was erected on January 5th and I went through on Wednesday 6th to see it,and lay fresh flowers,I was REALLY pleased at the finished job...I am really pleased I researched online and found Shaun and Paul of SP Memorials, Hull,well done lads,you followed my wishes to the letter.
The top picture shows my youngest son Mark,George's brother......

George would have been delighted at the soaring Eagle....

God bless number one......
Dad
xx

Happy New Decade

Here we are in another decade,a new year that I actually never expected to see AGAIN....there must be a God.

The world news over the holiday period brings more reports of terror,and it now seems the World leaders are going to take action on Yemen.
This is another thing I never expected to rear it's ugly head again in my lifetime,whether I had been ill or not,it is Yemen where...,as a young man in the Royal Navy...,I came under attack from Yemen terrorists.At the start of my blog,it states about one of my 'cat lives' being blown up,well,it was Aden,Yemen,that this happened,in the 60's...,I was on early morning guard duty with a friend,guarding a Royal Navy boat yard with a small wall around it,when,as usual,the school bus passed by on its weekday run with children onboard,I heard a 'PING' immediately realized a grenade had been activated,we shouted simultaneously GRENADE,both jumped over the little wall as it went THUMP...(a noise grenades exploding make lol).
We both lived to tell the tale,but it goes to show the lengths that terrorists took even in THOSE days even hiding in a school bus, if you need more info about the conflict it is HERE.
God protect and watch over all our service personnel and security services in their demanding jobs.
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