Lest We Forget

Sunday Blessings Lovelies

Lest We Forget

Today was Remembrance Sunday in the Uk.. in honor of all the soldiers who fought and died in war.

I wear my poppy with pride!

Both my Father and my brother served in the Royal Air Force. Dad was a fireman and my brother was a mechanic.

My great uncle paid the ultimate price...

Battery Sergeant Major Edwin Hampson..Royal Artillery (24th Siege Bty.)was killed 14 April 1917 aged 42

His name is engraved on the Remembrance Wall in St Marys Church, in the village where my family lives

His name on his parents gravestone is now faded

But the gratitude for his service and sacrifice will never diminish

To all those who fought and died..

Love and Eternal Gratitude

On days like this it makes me so grateful for my own family. I miss the days when our large family crowded around our dining table to share a  Sunday dinner. But now they are grown.. have their own families and are scattered far and wide. The next couple of years will be a bit lonely until MrD retires and we can move closer to our loved ones.

Photo: c1940

But its still cozy with just us two... as we spent a relaxing day together.. 

ending with a tasty dinner and a listen to one of our favourite radio shows

We had a variation of the Casserole of Chicken. from the 1943 edition of The Radiation Cookery Book but I diced the chicken and substituted the mushrooms for onions and carrots. Served with roasted potatoes, sliced green beans and a homemade stuffing.. there is enough casserole left to make into a pie later this week

'The Lodger' first aired on Jul 22, 1940 

Starring the talent of Herbert Marshall, Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Gwenn.