I walked to the Cenotaph today to attend the wreath laying ceremony for ANZAC day.
It was well attended and a pretty good ceremony. It's just as well though that I arrived 'early'. The useless twonk on the council who put the information on the website just listed "Wreath laying ceremony 9AM". As I was walking there I could hear a Maori choral group singing, then an oom-pah band and finally a pipe band playing. I arrived at 8.45 and going by the parades of air force, navy and army personnel, various bands and public, the show must have started at at latest 8.30!
I did arrive in time for some more of the same though and, oddly enough the pipe band was playing in tune and the brass one wasn't. That's something for Richard to ponder about which would make a change from his wandering about (and wondering about sin).
For the first time I had the chance of going inside the Cenotaph after the parade.
Here are some images and videos of the event.
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| Inside the Cenotaph war memorial |
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I also recorded the Last Post being played - the entire thing including the silence in the middle but bloody Aunty Google won't let me post it because it exceeds the video limit.
I'll ask the boss (The Old Girl) if she can sort this out for me and post it later.
Time for all you lazy buggers to get up now.
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