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Oct. 20th, 2006 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiffel_71Back to the Town Hall again this evening for the launch of the town's Poppy Appeal. When we arrived Dot, the nonagenarian fundraising supremo who'd kissed me at the Royal Army Medical Band concert, insisted on another kiss, then laughed like a drain for 10 minutes saying "I'm old enough to be his grandmother" (she's actually old enough to be my GREAT-grandmother). While my mother was talking to Dot, Jan, the Town Hall chief of staff, insisted I have a look over the buffet and asked if it had my 'seal of approval'. Loads of cheese, and Maltesers too, so it got a thumbs up from me.
A couple of middle-aged British Legion ladies came up for a quick chat about how I'm liking my civic role - they were pleasant, but they ran out of things to say after a couple of minutes. The town's Legion president, Sid, revealed that he was my grandfather's cousin; he thought that made us third cousins, but I informed him we were first cousins twice removed. We spent most of the evening drinking the complimentary white wine together and exchanging family anecdotes, while Julia, a councillor who knows me, who was sitting next to Sid, said "It's just like Who Do You Think You Are?"
There was quite a bit of food left over at the end of the evening, including most of the cheese (what a scandalous waste!) Jan offered my mother and me a lift home, and packed up all the cheese, plus various other leftovers, for her to take away :)
A couple of middle-aged British Legion ladies came up for a quick chat about how I'm liking my civic role - they were pleasant, but they ran out of things to say after a couple of minutes. The town's Legion president, Sid, revealed that he was my grandfather's cousin; he thought that made us third cousins, but I informed him we were first cousins twice removed. We spent most of the evening drinking the complimentary white wine together and exchanging family anecdotes, while Julia, a councillor who knows me, who was sitting next to Sid, said "It's just like Who Do You Think You Are?"
There was quite a bit of food left over at the end of the evening, including most of the cheese (what a scandalous waste!) Jan offered my mother and me a lift home, and packed up all the cheese, plus various other leftovers, for her to take away :)
