"Glory Days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye."
Not so much Glory Days as Mundane Days at the moment for me. I seem to be in the midst of a run of unremarkable days - nothing particularly good, nothing particularly bad.
There's been a run of these. I would like to break the cycle but it has to happen naturally.
The weather doesn't help. Tuesday in North Norfolk was supposed to turn out nice, but it stayed cloudy all day. Mind you there's something to be said about heavy rain clouds over the Norfolk saltmarshes. It certainly makes good photos. Yesterday it rained heavily and there's not a lot to be said about that.
Public benches are a wonderful source of information. I always read the inscriptions. You know the kind of thing.
"In memory of Elsie and Bert who loved this place."
At Blakeney I came across a bench to the memory of Lady Vera Shirley who apparently loved the very up market Blakeney Hotel.
I can't be certain but I reckon the chances are good that Vera was the widow of Air Vice Marshall Sir Thomas Shirley.
He joined the Royal Air Force as a cadet in 1928 and served in World War II as a Signals Officer at Headquarters RAF Middle East and then as a Staff Officer in the Directorate of Telecommunications at the Air Ministry. After the War he became Deputy Director of Signals at the Air Ministry and then Chief Signals Officer at Headquarters Transport Command before becoming Director of Radio Engineering at the Air Ministry in 1950. He went on to be Senior Technical Staff Officer at Headquarters Fighter Command in 1959 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Signals Command in 1964 before retiring in 1966.
But back to Glory Days.
We are currently watching a Netflix series entitled The Lincoln Lawyer which is based on novels by Michael Connelly. It's quite entertaining as these things go.
There's a character whose name is Gloria Dayton. A lady of the night she goes by the name of Glory Days. How about that for leaping from one subject to another?
I am currently reading the latest thriller from American author Linwood Barclay. Can't remember whether I've read any of his books before but this one is about driverless cars, something I really think will be with us in the not too distant future as might the whole scenario and the world that the author paints.
There's a very funny piece in the prologue if you have a strange sense of humour. I'm not sure I should share it with you as it might spoil it if you intend reading the book. All I will say is that it's a disaster that happens after one of the cars misunderstands a command from its non driver.