Lockdown day #36

So first I received a text message "reminding" me that the gas service engineer would come on 20th April.  Then yesterday the gas service engineer came along and looked at the boiler ... and TODAY I finally received the letter from the Housing Association that the gas service engineer would be coming ... perhaps tenants need to have telepathic powers these days!

I saw a weird short film called "Patrice" - about a black guy from Tunisia living in Germany.

On Facebook I was directed by a friend to a list of Disney films - and invited to add the film grossing the most at the box-office in the year that I was born.  For me this is "The Sword in the Stone" - an animated feature about the young King Arthur.  I hadn't realised it was released in 1963, but I have to say it is one of my top favourites for Disney films.

I sought out my DVD and watched the film again - I can see why it is in my all-time favourites list.

I did some work on my stamps ... which is very relaxing ... and took an evening stroll round the park.

But before I close today can I just say "Happy Birthday" to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - 94 today.

The road to 2013 part I

Nearly 50 years ago I was born in a suburb of Manchester called Ancoats, in the then Crossley Hospital.  The Crossley Hospital was run by the Salvation Army and its primary function was as a hospital for unmarried mothers.  My mother was married; but since she was a Salvation Army officer she gave birth to me in a private ward containing the "Officers' Bed".

This a picture of the Star Hall, one of the main Salvation Army meeting places in Manchester at the time.  The complex, which was originally a theatre, housed in addition to the Crossley Hospital, the main worship hall and the northern office of "Trade" (the Salvation Army shop).

The second picture is the site today, albeit from a different angle.  The tram in the picture is running past Crossley Court, a Salvation Army Housing Association development built on the site.

There is no blue plaque at this location commemorating my birth ... at least not yet.