Love you, Rosemary.
Sunday, 21 June 2020
St Christopher's Church, Johore Bahru, Malaysia
It was on the 20th of June 1953; 67 years ago, when Rosemary, my dear departed wife and best friend and I were married at St Christopher's Church in Johore Bahru.
Love you, Rosemary.
Love you, Rosemary.
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
An older post but intriguing
We first met aboard ship where I had a brief Acquaintance with him while being his instructor. David was a clever dick; knew everything - .
Saturday, 13 June 2020
Monday, 1 June 2020
A message from an Ex daughter in law
Sue is one of the four ex daughters in law who also attended the funeral of my late wife, Sue, has a caring nature, despite the opinion of a son of mine,
Good morning Les reply to RYOK.
Good thanks for asking, hope you have been too.
I have been working through the COVID 19 outbreak as an
essential services worker in the Courts. There are many precautions in place
around the workplace and trains. Previously Greg drove into work and dropped me
off when the pandemic seemed rife. Then he was able to work from home.
Sadly, he has been made forcibly redundant after being a
loyal employee for 31 years after the company was sold off and some staff moved
to the new online one. His skills and experience not required along with a few
others including his immediate manager and one of Greg's staff. The other staff
member retains a position with the new company mainly as he's cheaper.
Amazingly that fellow has the most time off sick leave including was interested
in finding a new job and was bagging out the new employer!
I thank God for my government job, at least I can feel
reasonably secure, notwithstanding, unfortunately though, there will always be
crime and a need for law and order and my job working for the Courts. I have
recently applied for a higher position and so far have passed, at any rate, I
have made it through the culling stage so I will be on the talent pool.
So there will be a good payout, but after 31 years, hardly
any sick leave, loyalty and the only original employee left, so should it be.
But alas, it won't last forever, there is an entirely new lifestyle ahead, one
we didn't plan on. Given his age, specialist skills set and the economic
climate in the future, there is next to zero chance of finding employment. I
now find myself in the task of the breadwinner. This was not the road plan for
my twilight working years.
So along with many thousands out of work and scrambling to
find out a decent living wage, the older generation will be cast aside in
favour of cheap labour. We will definitely be spending less like so many others
and keeping our money in the kitty for another rainy day. For the rest of our
lives, however long that may be.
But we'll get through this, we have to, we have to be
strong, life has dealt me yet another blow and as usual, I will have to pick
myself up again. I have a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, son in law,
gorgeous grandsons, my brothers and other family and friends I hold dear. I
will not let this latest blow defeat me. But it's still daunting.
We will have to use this new abundance of a windfall wisely.
I did want to travel to Israel, Egypt and Jordan in the next few years, maybe
take my grandkids to Disneyland like I did with their mother but I can always
dream and with determination can make the latter workout, I want to.
So technology can be a good thing but also a destructive
thing. Many things have and continue to go online, my husband is one of the
latest casualties. I even had an online video interview and assessments. Sad
really even if it was due to COVID 19. In the future, no human interaction,
just look at the self serve checkouts, online banking and days of old, getting
petrol at the garage, someone would pump the petrol, clean the windscreen even,
separate butcher's, hardware stores, fruit shops, now it's all in one and
shopping centres and we think this is all good but in effect, a detriment to
all of us.
So we should be looking at the human population, how can we
sustain ourselves if there aren't enough people working to keep others? Just
food for thought.
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