Just to let members know that I have quite given up guessing dates for the Reunion, but in no way have we given up on having the 2021/plus 2020 do. Rather the opposite, we are more than ever
committed to having the best reunion ever put together by anyone anywhere in the world !! (We have had a lot of time to plan). I am aware that at our time of life, waiting about is not something we
want to do, but rest assured everything is in place when the flag goes up, and we will out of the blocks like the proverbial greyhound.
There has been a number of occasions recently on the television, when half wits have assure us that the light is at the end of a tunnel, and there has not even been a tunnel. However, when I learned
that Brian Tennick had been given his vaccine injection (in Doncaster), I felt that we may be starting to see the New Dawn Breaking. I have mentioned in the News letter, that our hotel booking still holds good, I have spoken to the manager, and he is positive that all will be good.
I fear that one of the casualties of this pandemic will be the loss of veterans associations. I am aware of a couple of associations who have pulled down their flag. I suspect that depression created
by the lockdowns and miserable media coverage, has a grinding effect on many, but it is a real loss for veterans who will now lose contact with mates who speak the same language as them about events they all remember.
Well Victorious is alive and kicking, we will be there to watch the sun come out again.
On a serious note

, I need to get out soon. I have re-read Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series, (21 volumes) and have obtained the 11 volumes of Foresters Hornblower series, and have only one and a half books to go.