Atheism is a non prophet organisation.

Always go to other peoples funerals or they wont go to yours.

We are unable to hold back the years, but, at least I thought that this blog place would not notice that I had a birthday yesterday, it noticed, and was very smart at changing my profile, maybe I should have lied in the first place.

Had a smashing day, temperature in the high 70s, my lady friend, Hazel, and I took a picnic down to Moffat just a 50 min journey from Glasgow.

Moffat is in Dumfries & Galloway area, down in the Borders, a lovely little town, Rabbie Burns was a regular visitor, it lays claim to the smallest street in Scotland,

Chapel Street, 9 foot 11 inches wide and 18 foot 5 inches long.

We sat and had our picnic in Station Park, no station because Mr Beeching got rid of it in 1972, by the side of the boating lake where we were able to hold a conversation with three men in a boat that passed occasionally,

They were visiting the town with their wives on a coach tour, having had lunch together, and obviously a few beers, the wives had gone to the shops, and the menfolk had gone boating.

In the park is a memorial to Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, the man whose plans and organisation helped to save Britain during the 2nd World War, The Few, Battle of Britain, 1940, born in Moffat.

Hugh Dowding, Architect of Deliverance. Hazel reading the inscription.

The sun shone, all was right with the world.