compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion
into the Church of England as a teenager, subsequent to the positive
encouragement from the Rector of All Saints Church in Borehamwood,
who had been a fighter-pilot during WWII, I suppose it was a gradual
feeling of the hypocrisy of the after service events, which literally drove
me "to find out more " about the religion of the Church of England, in
juxtaposition to all other religions, following the purchase of my sturdy
VeeDub Beetle during my training as an Air Traffic Controller; and it
was whilst working as an area radar controller at London Radar, that my
involvement with the Leila Khaled EL AL hi-jacking event, really
sparked off my journey of discovery that finally led me to a definitive
understanding that GOD has NO RELIGION.
This gorgeous multi-coloured photograph of the monk's cellurium,
beautifully illustrates the former glory of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire,
which was just one of many the Cistercian Abbeys that I visited, including
Sweetheart Abbey in Scotland.
My soul-mate and I were married in St. Michaels and All Angels in
Borehamwood, and the grounds of the Cistercian Abbaye de La Cambre,
just round the corner from our flat in Brussels, were a favourite with us
both, whilst exercising our Afghan dog • and a reminder of course of the
galant bravery of the Belgium RAF Hawker Typhoon Pilot who in 1943
attacked the Gestapo Headquarters building, which can be still seen
from the abbey park today.
[IT] was on a separate occasion, whilst on a dog-walk around the Bois de la
Cambre that we began talking to an older lady sitting on a bench by the pond,
as a result of her hearing Linnie and I speaking English. Her experiences of the
Great war and appreciation of the British coming to Belgium's aid, brought
tears to her eyes, all of which has come to represent for us, the beginning
of our own deeply entrenched appreciation and understanding of how
privileged we British are, for never having been occupied, during either
of the World Wars.
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