A Blink of an Eye

 

Boy Scout gallantry Cross – awarded for rescuing a child from a canal.

Suddenly a week has gone. I have posted five times in that week, once managing twice a day. It isn’t just a week that has gone, my enthusiasm, energy and organisation all seem to have departed too.

Briefly I could feel them returning after a couple of acceptances, but it all seemed to fizzle out again.

Factory ID disc for Chilwell Shell Filling Factory

If anyone else had written this I would now be shouting at the screen about showing some self-discipline or making the NHS sort things out, but in real life the solution is seldom as simple as that. Added to that there are all sorts of things happening such as a request to display medallions at the Numismatic Society tonight. They would like me to take down the  medallions I have used as the inspiration for the Facebook posts I have done.

The 1982 Chilwell medallion – end of an era

I really have enough to do without searching them all out and working out some sort of display, but that’s life isn’t it – a succession of tasks, often requested by other people, that have to be done before you can do what you really want to do.

I’m going to call an end to this post now. It has reached a natural finishing point. Three times I managed to get over 250 words, and three times I have pruned it drastically because I didn’t like the way it was going. It’s near enough 250 words and will be even nearer by the time I have concluded this ending. Pictures are the medallions that I have written about on Facebook.

Chilwell Tank Fund badge – raising money to fight WW2

8 thoughts on “A Blink of an Eye

  1. Anonymous

    I am piling up a great heap of things that I have promised to do. Perhaps I will stop feeling guilty about not doing them, but whether this will be because I have done them or because I have totally forgotten about them, only time will ell.

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    1. quercuscommunity Post author

      I’m still looking for the medallions. Then I have to set them up for display. Fortunately that’s all I need to do, as it’s just a static display next to the print outs someone else is doing.

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  2. Lavinia Ross

    You will do well tonight. Was this your talk for them I think you have been planning for some time?

    Our excitement over here today was the heat. 100 degrees in the shade.

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    1. quercuscommunity Post author

      Ah! I just mentioned the eht in my last comment. Stay safe.

      No, this is just a display of a few medallions (which I have to find and make a display of. The talk is in two months. Only two months! Where does the time go?

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