Well I’m sitting here today on this lovely sunny Monday morning, with my ass getting tight, today’s the day the lights go out, I hope my shilling for the meter is enough, Howard, have a word with the Big Man for me, I know I am not worthy, but I need the reassurance and all the help I can get, to get through this day.
On a more cheerful and different note, it is judging day tomorrow. Tuesday the 12 of July, The South West In Bloom, RHS Judges will arrive in Yeovil at 9am, to see our town in all its glory, the yobs had a go last Friday night, but I hope the damage was minimal, we all need to remember that the whole town is judged not just the floral displays, it is our green qualities, cleanliness and overall impression of our town as well as the public and neighbourhood involvement, so, all in all, it is everyone who is involved, you will see judges and our team walking around the town centre just after 9am, then they go out into the communities and neighbourhoods to see for themselves what is being done there, I hope we do well but it is out of my hands now, the horticultural team at the SSDC nursery have done their best, and in my view “a very good best it is to”. If you want to help, just make sure, there is no litter about, on the day, if you see someone allowing their dog to soil the pavement, make sure they pick it up, we lost a gold medal a few years ago for just that reason. As Chairman of Yeovil in Bloom I hope to be there myself, but we will see how I feel, today will be a difficult day to get through.
The 40th Anniversary of the first flight of the Lynx Helicopter was last Friday and AgustaWestland had a celebration event for the staff and contractors on site. The rain stayed away and we were given a lovely flying display by all sorts of aircraft, most of which would have been built at Yeovil, there was a Wasp Helicopter, built in 1975, the year I joined Westland’s and I would have cut gears for that one, I am amazed it is still flying, obviously I was “trained well” and I chopped a good cog or too. I was surprised at the New Lynx (Wildcat), it is very quiet, it could sneak up on you without any trouble. It was also nice to see the G-Lynx, the fastest Helicopter in the world, refurbished by a team of apprentices; those apprentices are the children of the people who built parts for the original Lynx, 40 years ago. The wheel has indeed, turned full circle, and so it should. There was an Apache helicopter on display as well, if I am every in need I hope that bad-boy is on my side, I don’t think I would last long against it, just imagine that bad-boy Paintballing, OUCH.
When the flying display finished in Yeovil, the aircraft were prepped ready to go to Yeovilton, for the Air Day at HMS Heron, but you had to pay to get in there, sadly my plans to go fell apart at the eleventh hour, never mind they all flew over Yeovil anyway, so we got to see most of them in the grey skies anyway.
That’s it for this week, if I am able I will be back next week, we’ll SEE, I hope.
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