{"id":2672,"date":"2015-02-22T09:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T09:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2015-02-22T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T09:04:39","slug":"si-vis-pacem-para-bellum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Si vis pacem, para bellum.*"},"content":{"rendered":"

A maxim which applies to all areas of life, not just the battle field, IMHO.\u00a0\u00a0 Jings, where to start?\u00a0\u00a0 Where did I leave off?\u00a0 February 4th, apparently.\u00a0\u00a0 Since that time we were made aware that the Russian Consul General in Scotland was to award Dad with the Ushakov<\/a> medal, at home, in honour of his time served on the Arctic Convoys<\/a>.\u00a0 It was quite short notice and therefore a little<\/em> tricky to arrange, but in the end Mr Pritsepov and his team arrived, to the great excitement of the assembled audience.\u00a0 The Consul General asked Dad about his war service and in particular his experiences on board these runs. \u00a0 If you know my father you will be aware that his memory is pin sharp,\u00a0 so this was an informative and entertaining session.\u00a0 The CG then presented dad with the medal, and a beautiful commemorative watch.\u00a0 Everyone was invited to partake of a traditional shot of vodka at this point (you could tell afterwards who had had one because of the bright red faces).\u00a0\u00a0 Many photographs were taken, some of mine are below.<\/p>\n

Otherwise we have had two lovely meals here<\/a>, one for a cousin who unfortunately couldn’t be there, and a belated one for Paul’s 50th, with the White family.\u00a0\u00a0 We went out and about today, in Culross and the Bay, because although it was freezing it was gloriously sunny.\u00a0 Managed to return a lost precious thing and to take pictures of the moon with Earthshine, Venus and Mars<\/a>.\u00a0 This software is placing the pictures in reverse chronological order, sorry about that, my IT guru is asleep.\u00a0 As ever, double click to enlarge pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Crescent<\/a>
Crescent moon with Earthshine, Venus and Mars below right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Culross\"<\/a>
Culross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sunset<\/a>
Sunset silhouette, Culross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Christopher<\/a>
Christopher White in the North Queensferry lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jacquie,<\/a>
Jacquie, Chris, Paul and Philip, Wee Restaurant NQ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
My father’s medals from WWII<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"English<\/a>
English translation of medal script<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Medal<\/a>
Medal Ceremony programme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alexander<\/a>
Alexander Miller M.A. Esq with Ushakov Medal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mr<\/a>
Mr Pritsepov awarding medal, with Mr. Timofey V. Kunitskiy, Vice-Consul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Reminiscing\"<\/a>
Reminiscing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mr<\/a>
Mr Pritsepov greets Dad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ushakov<\/a>
Ushakov Medal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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*If you wish peace, prepare for war.\u00a0 Motto of the Royal Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A maxim which applies to all areas of life, not just the battle field, IMHO.\u00a0\u00a0 Jings, where to start?\u00a0\u00a0 Where did I leave off?\u00a0 February 4th, apparently.\u00a0\u00a0 Since that time we were made aware that the Russian Consul General in Scotland was to award Dad with the Ushakov medal, at home, in honour of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29,7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-family","category-fife","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}