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RDP Thursday: Badge

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“Spe, Labore, Fide” meaning “hope, work, faith”. This was the badge I wore on my hat and my jacket when I went to my grammar school for six years. The school was on the border of the City of London and we had to pass our 11+ examination to get there. That was also combined with an interview with the head misstress, which was more a formality it seemed to me.

The badge looks a bit worse for wear, but I found it in a dark corner of a cupboard and it was once on my jacket, but I managed to separate it and put it away. This was all about 66 years ago and it is a wonder that the badge still exists. The school no longer exists as such, but amalgamated with another school in the region, although a few relics from the days such as the honours board were inaugurated in the new school.

I suppose I can thank the school for the basics of my edudation and I still have a few connections through schoolfriends from the time.

RDP Thursday: Badge

RDP Tuesday: Armchair

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Armchairs have a purpose as Mr. Swiss discovered. One of the photos when we were still young and lovely. I think the chairs are made in Norway and are called Stressless. As you can see from the photo, they are really stressless. Mr. Swiss is no longer here, but in his golden oldie home, so I have two of these Stressless chairs to choose from – no problem.

That is where I like to read my books/Kindle in the eveningl

RDP Tuesday: Armchair

RDP Sunday: Aurora

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Let us not get excited. This photo is not the northern lights that everyone seem to have got this week. Apparently the sun had a storm and all sorts of light effects were the result – even the danger of power cuts, although I slept through it all. How was I supposed to know that the light show of the centuary was happening outside my window when I am tucked up in bed and sleeping about 9-10 in the evening. I only heard about it the next morming on the Swiss radio news. I do not even both with television now. Anyhow after digging around in my archives I found something similar. You see it does not have to be midnight, even early in the morning we have our special effects. The sun can wait as far as I am concerned.

RDP Sunday: Aurora

RDP Saturday: Mother

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Two mothers together. On the right my great grandmother and the little girl at the front is my grandmother. The man was my great grandfather. He was known to have said when my grandmother was born, “Thats the last of the bunch”. My grandmother had 11 surviving brothers and she was the last to be born. Of course I never knew her parents, but I remember my grandmother quite well. She lived in the priest’s house at Sissinghurst castle in Sissinghurst, England and met my grandfather whilst he was visiting relatives in Sissinghurst. He was an East End boy from London. I often wonder how my grandmother managed moving to London after living in the countryside.

RDP Saturday: Mother

RDP Thursday: Shape

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We have this cupboard in our living room. One thing Mr. Swiss had, was good taste and he got this. It was black and very highly polished and to my taste a good piece of furniture. However, when we moved 30 years ago to our present appartment, something happened on the removal and on the left door the shiny surface was damaged and since then we have this stupid shaped mark at the top of the door.

Somehow it got scratched and the surface lack was damaged. I am now alone in the apartement and have time to take a closer look, but to no avail. I would probably have to have a new surface made. I tried everything. I even have black nail paint, but that did not work either. On the photo of the cupboard you cannot see it, but if you take a look at the cupboard closer you can see it. There is another scratch mark at the bottom of the door. Most annoying, although Mr. Swiss no longer remembers it so well.

RDP Thursday: Shape