Memories

 

There may be different ways of entering the New Year but something very much in it's past, over one hundred and ten years old with that sepia, beloved at the time but today often in black and white greyscales.

Uniform reflected the Edwardian era of Scouting in its infancy and not how the neckerchief is fastened too.

Sending wishes, the old school way by Postcard, in Twenty Twenty Six and endangered species and yet the fact we can see it is something that with current trends in 2126 we may not as sd's cards fail and file formats drift.

We can read a lot too into how it is written by the handwriting.

There is something to be said for us sending a Postcard even if we post updates  from our tablets and smartphones while we are visiting places: A truely permanent memory.

Memories and things on the day of the Funeral of Queen Elizabeth

As today we prepare ourselves for the funeral service for our Queen, Elizabeth II, minds are cast back to that of the funeral  for her father George VI which my father recalls as a Cub at the time here in North Staffordshire with the alterations made such as renewing The Oath.

It was something he was telling me about yesterday after speaking to my Aunt on the telephone who had been in Norfolk with the Trifoil Guild which is a branch of Girlguiding with around 20,000 members, which enables men and women to maintain their links with guiding. She's renewed her Oath.

Their aims are: To live in the spirit of guiding. To offer practical help to Girlguiding. To support guiding worldwide.

Scouts of the ages 18 though to 25 have been assisting in the arrangements for people wishing to pay respects by directing attendees, providing assistance, talking with people and so on  and public feedback has been highly positive. We can be proud of them.

Pictured is a then eight year old Wolf Cub, Micky Bran attending the filing past the coffin during the laying in wait of George VI on February 15, 1952 who lived in the Colliers Wood area of London.

Amazingly he's 78 years of age today!

Photo credits: Murray Sanders/Daily Mail.