August 2023

Thoughts from Sandie

What a strange month July has been weather wise.

It’s been a bit of a yo-yo, rain then sun then repeat, and below average temperatures. Hopefully we will have some nice bright days in August.

Thank you all for you continued support and generosity towards your club.
We raised an amazing £76 pounds on the Raffle in July, and a fantastic £158 in our Collection Tin.

Also thank you to all of you who regularly bring biscuits in.

Thoughts from the 60's, what a decade of firsts.

• 1960 John F. Kennedy wins the U.S. Presidential Election after defeating Richard Nixon, both would go on to be better known for different reasons.
• 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis has the world on the edge of another World War. The Beatles had their first hit (Love Me Do). I wonder what happened to them?
• 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an event where apparently everyone knows where they were when the heard the news. The Rolling Stones had their first hit, and 60 years later they are still touring the world, how many of us are doing the same job we started 60 years ago?
• 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a peaceful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. Within two years he had been assassinated by James Earl Ray.
• 1966 Indira Gandhi becomes the first female Prime Minister of India. England win the World Cup for the first time, and 57 years later we are still waiting for Football to Come Home again. Perhaps by the end of month, the Lionesses will have done what the men have failed to do since.
• 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men walk on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission (allegedly!!). I wonder when we will ever go back (50 years and counting), many countries are currently trying?
• £1,000 was considered a good annual salary in the 1960s. People saw this as the dividing line between a well-paid respectable job and a poorly paid job. Whilst prices have gone up, earnings have increased more.
• The school-leaving age in the 1960s was fifteen. If you left school at that age, you would have no qualifications. Children did not take GCEs and CSEs until their final year at age sixteen.
• As the 60’s came to an end, we were preparing for decimal currency. Farthings, shillings, and florins would soon disappear, and we would have to start counting money in 10’s.