And I'm glad too, brilliant pictures. I'm not sure about "wicked" though, bit of a hijacked modernist usage, but I know what you mean. Of course it passes here with only a flicker of official and media attention, which is rather shameful.

Keith's reference to the proud leading scout touched an open nerve since it recalled the tirade of complaint from a young-middle age mother printed in our parish magazine. She took exception to the scouts parading and attending the church Rememberance Sunday service in uniform and got within an ace of calling them the new age Hitler Youth.

It beggars belief.

Well, I wonder if a lot of the others do, since history tends to smooth it over and we are famous for making defeats glorious.

It might cause a serious intake of breath in far flung places but the carnage of this debacle lies squarely with the arrogance, incompetance and downright bad planning of one person alone.

Winston Churchill.

Fortunately he did a bit better somewhat later on.

Great stuff, I look forwards to it.

Yes it is.

Lest we forget indeed the vast contributions of men in two wars from the "Dominions", places that really had no direct connection or reason to be here, but happily sent their best young men by the ship load. Only a proportion were subsequently returned and of those a great deal were badly damaged.

It does not sit too well with the subsequent shameful, unwarranted and shabby treatment meted out from here in the later part of the 20th century. The political machine has a conveniently short memory when it suits them.


R.