it was only a training session

 

 

 

It was only a training session. A last minute change for a pre-season friendly cancelled for Covid-19 , but how good did it feel to be back amongst our Villa family!

 

So many lives have been lost to this horrible virus. We mourn for those bereft. We salute the workers of the NHS for their enduring courage, compassion and dedication. We salute those who kept our country running in the worst health crisis in living memory - the shop-workers, the tradesmen, the taxi-drivers, the bin-men and so many more. And we salute the brilliant scientists who have delivered in record time the vaccine that provides us all with a life-line.

 

And now, for one brief moment we come together. It was only a training session. But we embraced life and the hope of normality to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i am the dance

 

 

windrush

Dear Sheddists,

earlier this week we pay a visit to to the 'Windrush Garden'.  Originally planted for Chelsea Flower Show it's now been relocated, lock stock and barrel, to a new home outside Birmingham Town Hall.

The display is a poignant reminder of the hopes, aspirations, disappointments and joy of a generation that came to serve. A generation from whom we could learn so much.

We read the stories on the back of giant dominoes that lie in the wake of the 'Empress Windrush' and meet a very dignified lady who traveled from Jamaica with her family all those years ago.  She tells us of landing in London, aged nine in thin, tropical clothing and being taken by her father to buy a coat to protect her from the cold.  She's with her lovely daughter who spotted her mother's photograph in a display in Central Library and is clearly, and rightly, proud of her family history.

These are troubling times in the world right now and it's so good to be reminded of the spirit of hope and optimism brought to us all those years ago by the Windrush generation.

Yours as ever,

electrofried(mr)

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