Old Soldiers

Allotment this morning. I photographed some of the weeds wildflowers while I was there... it became appropriate later when Liz phoned to say that our Uncle Bert had just died.
He was a lovely, kind, gentle, funny man. Thin as a reed with a huge adam's apple and big sticky-oot lugs :)
A D-Day Dodger, too; joined the Gordon Highlanders near the start of the 2nd World War, fought in North Africa, Sicily and the Italian Campaign. I'm glad I was able to introduce him to Meles, he liked that she played in a country dance band...he went dancing with Aunty Jessie every week...