12/12/12

December 12th, 2012: today is the last time we will have a 'triple' date until the next century.  And it is quite possible that by then there will be some new form of international time and date keeping based on the metric system, so this may be the last triple date ever.

This morning I have been rearranging my writing room and cleaning it out.  Amongst other dusty discoveries, I came across the bible that had belonged to my uncle Roger, who, sadly, died when he was a child, long before there was anyone alive to call him uncle.  There is a note written in the front of it from his teacher, dated 1950, that says it was presented for "Good Conduct".  This was obviously carefully saved by his mother, and copies of his Sunday School "star registers" are tucked in, along with all kinds of little religious cards stuffed into different chapters (whether marking verses of significance or not we will never know), some of them with pencil drawings done by a very young child on the backs.