Saturday already.
I don’t know where the days go. It’s already 10.24 and I’m only just starting the real work of the day.
Julia and I had breakfast at McDonald’s this morning (it’s our equivalent of a social life) before I went to the shop and she went to the gym. She also shopped, went to the park and cooked tea. Whilst in the park, she attended an event and inveigled an invitation for her garden group to go to the park and work in the Tropical House for some of the coldest days.
Meanwhile, I sat in the back room of the shop, cut off from natural light, and worked away. Apart from an hour or so in the afternoon when I spent it talking to a customer who came in. We covered rhubarb, medals and metal detecting. He dug up a cut half penny and a Roman coin last week. He also showed us a picture of a coin that he saw dug up. Someone was walking towards him in the field to ask how he was doing and while they were still about ten yards away they stopped and started digging…
… producing a gold Celtic Stater.
It’s amazing what you can find in fields, particularly with modern machines, and a full day spent walking in ploughed fields.
I put a nice 1920s Scout badge, a medallion commemorating us joining the EEC in 1973 – quite topical and popular these days- and a medal commemorating the Chilwell Shell Filling Factory and Ordnance depot. It’s still running as Chetwynd Barracks but is due for closure in 2024. I bet they don’t do a medal for that.
I keep saying I’ll do a post on Chilwell and its medals, but I never do. Must try harder. In fact I must start a list and get through some jobs.
That’s about it for now – I’m off to write that list.
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I, too, struggle with lists. My mind just doesn’t run in that kind of organized direction. Wonderful what an assortment of coins can be found in English fields.
We spent over 2,000 years losing them 🙂 The list is, as yet, just an good intention hovering over my head, like the breakfast washing up that needs doing before Julia gets home…
I love that scout badge with a mohican.
You can get different coloured bristles for different ranks – it must be quite a colourful show.
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I am with Derrick, That is a very poor picture of Ted Heath.
Good luck with the list.
I no longer expect likenesses. The Queen Mother is usually depicted as Popeye, the Queen looks more and more like a bulldog on medals and Churchill looks like a truculent newborn, though as most babies do look like Churchill I suppose this is to be expected. There are some real horrors…
That’s not the Ted I remember
Are we talking band leaders?
Banned?
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Good luck listing. I make lists and forget to look at them. 🙂
It is possible that this might happen…