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Muttering about my Life

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Plastic Transport Tokens – Nottingham

 

Looking over my life again, and formulating, with hindsight, a plan for its progress, I should have been a TV critic. I could then have played to my strengths and watched TV  all day. Then I could have written about it, appeared as a talking head, done celebrity quizzes and, if lucky, avoided reality TV. Compared to quizzes it always looks so hard. Two months living in a jungle with people I don’t like would be enough for me to put Plan B. That’s the one where I solve the twin problems of hunger and irritation by roasting one of the more annoying contestants and eating them. I’m a Cannibal, Get Me Out of Here!

I could write a book in jail and have a film deal waiting for me when I got out.

Well, it’s one version of my life and how it could have gone. Other lives, I suppose, are available.

I’m beginning to become more adept at writing short pieces for the Numismatic Society Facebook page.  I think I mentioned yesterday that I had done one on the Loughborough Carillon. That isn’t needed for a week or two, which is a shame, becauseI can easily do two or three a week. They are getting easier and they help me avoid the real work of the September Presentation. That link will take you to a piece I just did on plastic transport tokens from Nottingham Corporation Transport. The pictures are the ones from the Facebook article. If I use them it saves me the trouble of being creative.

Plastic ARP Transport Token – Nottingham – Home Front

 

 

A Blink of an Eye

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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