Thought for the day:"Federal Agents Raid Gun Shop - Find Weapons" (real Newspaper Headlines)
Seems to be time for another hedgehog ...
For no real reason at all !
Allied Masonic This afternoon - I am installing my successor into the Chair in Llanelli.
Meanwhile the Webcast from the Tercentenary Celebration of Freemasonry in the Albert Hall has appeared upon the web...
Best to skip the first few minutes - starts at 27 minutes in and is an enjoyable watch - either for Freemason or for a stranger to the Craft - giving most of principles under which we work.
Thought for the day:"I tried cooking dinner with wine this evening - it didn't go so well - after two bottles I forgot why I was in the kitchen"
Got back from the South Coast - and Plumbers have come and looked at the house for a complete "upgrade" on the central heating... ... Seems we are going to have a warm house by Christmas...
other than that - not much happening ...
quiet night with a glass in hand
and then you have "you only had one job"
Makes you think !!
Cheers..
Thought for the day:"Marijuana Issue Sent To A Joint Committee" (Real News Headlines)
Provincial Meeting at Diss in Norfolk and getting to know some of my colleagues now.
Susie managed to get her flight out to Crete from Luton - an hour late but only 20 people on the plane so plenty of room to stretch the legs.
I am currently sitting on a dog - 'Thena is trying to crawl into any corner and dig it up despite the fact that the fireworks have not started yet !!. She normally tried to crouch under the machine by your legs - but in this case she is trying to crawl inside the computer which would not do it any good at all!
Got a bit of a shock. Got home to find an ecstatic Ziggy bounding all over the kitchen and no Thena. They had been shut in the Kitchen but obviously given the run of the garden - so no sign of her anywhere... Got changed ready to trawl the streets when a knock came from next door - where Thena had been for most of the afternoon apparently so they had shut her in their garage - Ziggy had been next door as well apparently but had obviously managed to get herself home in the meantime - but gave me a few minutes of concern....
So we are all here in Aylesbury now - Ziggy and Thena and myself. Nancy Working. Stuart at the Wolves Banquet. Kiddies at the other grand parents - and me with the dogs....
Off to the South Coast tomorrow...
then back home for the week ...
And so onto the "you only had one job" section....
Well - it is correct !!
Cheers!
Thought for the day:"Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops of significantly after the age of 20" (real news headlines)
And some pictures from the Grand Court of the Masonic Order of ATHELSTAN
With the Provincial Grand Secretary
With the Grand Master
And the Assistant Grand Master
and the Provincial Grand Master
and the Provincial Pages..
So - Susie off to Crete tomorrow - a week has gone quickly here in Aylesbury - and I shall be off to Diss in Norfolk for the Provincial Meeting..
Thought for the day:"I had a happy childhood. My dad would put me inside a tyre
and roll me down a hill. They were Goodyears."
So the American influence once more creeps into the British Society as I found myself last night dressed up as a zombie - wondering the streets of Aylesbury with about 20 children in various states of costume and dress begging around the houses....
Meanwhile Susie was back at the house with a purple Witch Mask on her face ready to pounce out on those who dared to call at the door and yell!! bringing at last two young children to tears to the delight of their parents... Oh yes - the parents are fully involved which is a good thing it seems to me - as though the streets in the area are quiet - a gaggle of kids streaming across road in the dark is a good recipe for disaster...
So accompanied by a Clown, a young Dracula and a Victorian Lady and her butler we would our way around the streets. The trick is to look for the pumpkins outside the door - especially the ones that are lit. This is the universal signal that the resident is happy to have someone knock on the door. This is a vast improvement upon the Early Morning calls we used to get on New Year's day in Wales where the children came around to sing carols - which was no good if you had not found your bed until 6am !!!
No, like Gandalf scratching upon a Hobbit hole saying "Burglar lives here" or the thieves and vagabonds of old scraping their symbols on gates to show which houses had rich pickings - the pumpkin is now a ticket to get sweets .... And so the sugar rush continues...
Devon Police recently identified many of the signs used by burglars..
But of course the high point of this form of message was the depression in the US
During the Great Depression in the U.S. itinerants who travelled state-to-state on the railroad looking for work and living rough - called 'hobos' - would use symbols to direct, help and warn their brethren.
Symbols from the 'Hobo code' would be scrawled with chalk or coal on houses, posts, gates, bridges, railroad yards and other places.
As well as helpful advice like 'housewife feeds for chores' and 'can sleep in barn', there are warnings such as 'man with a gun' and 'dishonest man'.
Hobos needed all the help they could get as they faced a hard and dangerous life as they rode the railways.
In addition to the problems of being looked down on, poor, far from home and frequently sleeping rough, they also had to face the railroads' security staff, nicknamed 'bulls', who were often quick to use violence against trespassers.
But back to Aylesbury and the witch at the door ....
Couldn't find the broomstick that cam with the witch and the batteries were rusted through ... but signs of the time - I found a broom for her
And - luckily after about an hour and a half, the youngest is getting tired, the Butler has to go home and the Victorian Lady is getting cold so we manage to make our way back home....
But even Google enjoyed a doodle...
Well - until next year - or maybe longer -
and so the month turns and we are now into November
