Stand at Dawn . . .

. . . together while apart. Because public ANZAC services have been cancelled this year it was suggested people could stand at their driveways at dawn to remember.  This morning at 6 a.m one of our neighbours played The Last Post on her baby saxophone.  Several of us gathered at our letter boxes and listened.  The young lady on the right had walked up to our street and said she passed several people standing in the dark on their driveways.  She walked up because she is in a bubble of one and these are her parents. They have a special reason to mark the day.  Her mother is wearing her father's medals.  He served at Passchendaele in WW1 and the Pacific Islands in WW2.  I think her mother is unique being able to say her father was in both wars.  In 2017 the family went to the 100 years event at Passchendaele.  Another neighbour was wearing her mother's medals.  Her mother was nurse in WW 2 in the Pacific and Italy.  
We adjourned to our driveway and still keeping the physical distance we had tea, coffee or whiskey and Anzac Biscuits.  It was a special morning.  In the extra my bears displaying a poppy.  A few letterboxes and windows in the neighbourhood are doing the same.