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A New Medal

I had beans on toast for breakfast. Eating them with one hand whilst working the keyboard with my other hand, I became aware that the transfer of beans from plate to mouth was not going well, and my shirt was becoming an unintended intermediary.

Although I thought I managed to wash it down before leaving for work it seems I was mistaken as small orange patched reappeared on my shirtfront during the course of the day.

Things got a bit more interesting when I got to work. Someone wants to know where his £80 items is. It appears to be at his house as it was delivered a week ago and is showing on the Royal Mail website as delivered, signed for and photograph. It’s either a very inept attempt at fraud, or a slightly dysfunctional family. If it had been me I would have been asking after two days – it was sent Guaranteed and that is a service with next day delivery.

Finally – the visit I had been waiting for. An elderly gent arrived with some medals for mounting. Although he last saw active service in the 1960s, the Government has just sent him a medal to recognise part of his service. It is the Nuclear Test Medal for those involved in the Nuclear Test programme of the 1950s and 60s.

There are 22,000 people eligible for the medal, though it’s likely that many will go unclaimed. This one will be mounted with his other two medals and will be ready to wear on Remembrance Sunday. The medal office is making a determined effort to get all the medals out to survivors so they can wear them for this year’s parades.

Unfortunately, they haven’t been quite so quick at getting out the guidance on the order they are to be mounted in and I am either going to have to rely on Wikipedia or ring the Ministry of Defence helpline on Monday.

It’s the first medal I’ve seen with the head of King Charles on it (the Coronation medals aren’t out yet) and the first Nuclear test medal I’ve seen, so it’s been an historic sort of day.

Nuclear Test Medal 1952-67

The Lost Post

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The post I wrote last night seems to have disappeared completely. It’s not in my list of posts, it’s not in drafts and it’s not in the trash.

I am at a loss.

Does anyone know where I should look?

It was about Newark Siege Coins, so that’s the picture I have used again. When I have a few minutes I will ask WP if they know.

This is yesterday’s post.

Looking Back, and a False Start

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I’m not having a good time at the moment, having just wiped out an entire post just as I was giving it a final edit. WordPress has been refusing to save on a regular basis recently, so there was no previous version to reinstate. It’s been a minor irritant in the last month or so, but after this I’m going to have to sort it out.

Has anybody else noticed this problem?

It isn’t just the annoyance of losing 350 words, which took some writing, as I’m not particularly swift today. It’s also that I feel posterity has been robbed, because the second version never seems as good. The second version, I always feel, should be more polished, but it never seems to be the case; I never seem to be able to recreate a post to my satisfaction.

That is why I’m not going to write about my adventures with Scotch Bonnets, compressors and boiling water just now. I will get back to it later but now isn’t the time.

I may as well just look back on the week – a walk round the duck pond, a damp day in Derbyshire, some new words, birds at Rufford Abbey, some weather and 12 hours bottling jerk seasoning. It’s been, to say the least, an up and down sort of week.

I’ve enjoyed it, but it’s been a case of two steps forward and one step back, as I don’t seem to be achieving much. The exercise is just making me ache and feel old instead of making me fitter and, at the same time, I’m slipping back to eating carbs. Time for a hard look at my life again.

Having reviewed my week, albeit briefly, I’m now going to add a selection of photos from last week and call it a retrospective.