Greetings to all of you and we wish you all
a prosperous and healthy 2009. This is my second attempt to do this
report. The ribbon will not turn on the typewriter and my finger is worn
out trying to rewind it. Excuse the mistakes – I will carry on and hope for
the best. Not a great deal to report this time. We welcomed a new member to
our group – Jackie Sharpe. She served with the WRAC at the Ministry of
Defence in London.
Our Secretary, Mary Gregory, gave us a very
interesting report on her visit to the Royal Garden party in July and said
how much she enjoyed attending. We were delighted to see her photograph
with the party in the last Lioness – didn’t they all look smart?
We look forward this month to our Annual
Christmas Lunch at the White Lion Hotel, Bury, where the landlady Joan
always makes us welcome at our monthly meetings and other annual events.
Only six of our members managed to get to
the November meeting because of ill health and bad weather etc. There were
already a small group of young lads in our usual room - all soldiers just
back from Iraq and Afghanistan and they attended the Remembrance Service
here in Bury. Then we told them who we were – there were smiles all round.
It is amazing to think that when we served in WWII over 60 years ago these
lads were not born. They gave each of us a glass of wine and we raised our
glasses to them.
