How Was Your Week? Remembrance, Creativity and Frustrating News

Last Sunday was Remembrance Sunday and as I watched people laying poppy wreaths at the cenotaph, we are reminded: On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month….we shall remember them.

and the haunting sound of a lone bugle brought to mind a poem I wrote many years ago, and with the wars in Palestine/Israel and Ukraine still waging, I have updated it

LEST WE FORGET by Carole Hill
Two minutes’ silence echoes
private grief
while the nation mourns

and haunting bugles lament
heroes slayed in pointless wars,
and ‘Big Guns’, salute you.

Some still remember
red poppies of Flanders Field
their seeds from death and blood,
reborn.

The nation wears with pride
our poppy of respect,
as we seek solace in united grief.

Two minutes silence
marks your sacrifice
while others still die in pointless wars.

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Did the 100-Year-Old WWII Veteran sum up the UK perfectly with his reply: The Country Is Worse Than It Was When I Fought for It

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LATEST ART PROJECT

Last Sunday, I also started a new project with my art teacher. It is a textured painting, but I’m unsure. We will see… Part two this Sunday. The Jury is still out. It’s meant to be the Tree of Life. Maybe if you close one eye and squint through the other? *laughing*

THE BEST LAID PLANS – FRUSTRATING NEWS

We were meant to be going back to England this week to spend time with Family. Everything was organised. Dinners and activities planned and booked. … then came the news our grandson had contracted chickenpox. Now our trip will be delayed until the Spring. Can I scream?

THE ICING ON THE CAKE?

Finally, if we were having coffee, I would also tell you we have had horrendous weather this week. Tornados, floods and storms. We have been lucky (so far) in our corner of the Algarve, but other parts of the Algarve have not been so fortunate.

I awoke at 3am today to discover we had a power cut. A power cut that lasted ten hours, and of course, it was the one time I hadn’t charged my phone or tablet before going to bed.

And the cherry on the cake? The pool is overflowing and the pump is not working…. sigh

Ho hum, our problems are minor compared to the devastation caused by floods, strong winds, and power surges that have wiped out their electrical equipment.

That’s it for this week, folks. I need to do my exercises before powering down for bed. Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see ya’ll over at Natalie’s blog for other weekend coffee shares