Fnurban #18 : Knit Your Own Remembrance

Today has of course been Remembrance Sunday : my very minor contribution to that was to ensure that the village church clock was keeping good time and chimed for 11:00 am at spot-on 11:00am.   If we have the telly on for the Cenotaph, and our front door open to hear the church, we can compare our 'bongs' with Big Ben - and we were within a few seconds,  not so bad. Apart from the novelty of King Charles and the absence of his late mother, and the chance for sarcasm at the expense of the increasing gaggle of former Prime Ministers ( collective noun - a 'Crisis'  of Prime Ministers ? ),  of course the most important part is to see the march past by the many and various veterans, who have all our respect. 

Then a stroll to the village shop and Post Office, where we saw our local essay at a recent trend - the pillar box 'topper' -  on a Remembrance theme. 

    

I think it's rather splendid, and all services are represented :

Though considering it was made by ladies of the 'Craft and Chat Group', perhaps they should have taken the opportunity to make  one of the figures a  'Wren' or a 'WAAF' ?  ( by the way, I'd guess they are about '200mm' scale ). 

Anyway, a rather sweet  gesture which cheered us up, and also made it into the local newspaper. Very sadly, there was a  murder of a mother and child in the village a couple of months ago, which has dominated local media   - as a friend of ours  ( who is one of the creators )  said, it was nice to get our village a positive mention in local news for a change. 

I'll be back soon with the set-up of a trial game with Twilight of the Divine Right Pike and Shot period rules, to compare with In Deo Veritas as featured in recent posts. Meanwhile, keep well everyone, and of course, Lest We Forget..