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Things which make me smile

Chris Pearson
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Pulling a cable through an invisible void without snagging, without skinning my knuckles, only sawing through one floor board, no further excavation, knees intact, and no allergic reaction.


Some days it goes well. ??
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    Sitting with an elderly customers having lunch listening to some of their memories, particularly some of the wartime stories from when they were in their teens and early twenties.


    One lady customer was a test pilot flying aircraft out of the back of the Austin car factory in Longbridge, Birmingham. Another was a cipher girl in Churchill’s bunker under Whitehall.


    An elderly gent I had lunch with about a year ago was a gunner at the age of sixteen shooting down German aircraft over Cardiff docks.


    Going back forty years ago I sat and had a cup of tea at lunchtime with Alvar Liddell 


    I have also had tea and biscuits with a couple of bishops during tea breaks, a Bishop of Worcester and the Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church  in customers homes, the latter being in the home of a customer who turned out to be a surgeon who operated on my left arm thirty years earlier.


    And so the list goes on, it’s surprising the stories you hear if you sit and listen, particularly to elderly customers.


    Andy Betteridge
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    Sitting with an elderly customers having lunch listening to some of their memories, particularly some of the wartime stories from when they were in their teens and early twenties.


    One lady customer was a test pilot flying aircraft out of the back of the Austin car factory in Longbridge, Birmingham. Another was a cipher girl in Churchill’s bunker under Whitehall.


    An elderly gent I had lunch with about a year ago was a gunner at the age of sixteen shooting down German aircraft over Cardiff docks.


    Going back forty years ago I sat and had a cup of tea at lunchtime with Alvar Liddell 


    I have also had tea and biscuits with a couple of bishops during tea breaks, a Bishop of Worcester and the Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church  in customers homes, the latter being in the home of a customer who turned out to be a surgeon who operated on my left arm thirty years earlier.


    And so the list goes on, it’s surprising the stories you hear if you sit and listen, particularly to elderly customers.


    Andy Betteridge
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