Abstract Stained Glass

What to say about today?
For me it was a hark back to my schooldays when I met with some of my school’s former pupils  for our yearly coffee morning. It’s a chastening time to see how the ravages of the years have taken their toll on our once youthful countenances. White heads, hearing aids , stoops and sticks predominated but that meant little to the hilarity of the proceedings. We couldn’t hear what the newly promoted FP organisers were saying because we chose to sit at the back of the hall, but the coffee was good and the baking was to die for. 

The turnout all seemed to have bus passes, no under 50s would consider it a good way to spend a Saturday morning, but did we care? It was a time to reminisce and keep up with all our news. We have a very special bond in having lived long enough to grace these coffee mornings- so many of or contemporaries have already shuffled off their mortal coil.

These meetings are usually held in the Merchants’Hall in Hanover Street, but today it was in the Dean Church at Ravelston. With Charlotte Square apparently out of action at the moment, the #47 bus took me there and back by a highly engaging diverted route. It all adds to the traffic chaos in the city.

I had time before everyone arrived to blip the church’s stained glass windows which looked very colourful and contemporary.