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May. 10th, 2025

VE Day

May. 10th, 2025 10:50 am
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 Ailz read in the Mirror that there was a natiowide two minutes silence on Thursday morning at 11.00, in commemoration of VE Day.  This is the first either of us had heard of it. 

They- whoever they are, the PM? the Archbishop of Canterbury? (O, I just remembered we don't have one of those at the moment because the last one resigned in disgrace) can hand these fiats down but can't count on their being noticed.

On Thursday morning- as Ailz pointed out- us Quakers were at the Meeting House. Our half hour of silent worship began at 10.30 and at 11.00 we emerged from it and started yakking away.....

It's 80 years ago since the first VE Day. The generation that fought in WWII has all but disappeared and the generation that remembers living in wartime is fading fast.  There's been a lot of things happen since....
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 The baby starlings- soft fluffy things with very sharp beaks- are out of their nests and telling their parents to feed them now, now, now! What a racket they do make!

The gull stands in the bird bath cooling its feet. 

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