The Suez Veterans Association

Hi! Lads and Lassies

Well it may be the start of another month, but sadly the end of another year is in sight. It will not be long before all the Suez Vets will be 80 year olds, where have all the years gone?  Thank you for all your Emails and you Sally for all your input, some of the pictures attached were sent by Sally, she was the daughter of  a Suez Canal Zone pilot, not the flying type, guiding the ships through the Canal.  Thank you for all your mail and cards, and little pressies, always welcome.

Pleased to hear you are all getting your DVDs safely, mail is slower than a pregnant snail this time of the year so don’t forget to share.  We have lost a few more friends, especially our Jimbee in New Zealand, a Vet and a Gentleman. We will miss him, never failed to send me a regular email, it was so sudden that shocked me, but God Bless him and all those who have gone to their last posting.

Everything has gone quite smoothly this last month not many problems at all, two more vets have received their medals, and also helping a lady whose grandfather died when the Hastings he was flying crashed at Fayid, I remember it well as we cleared the runway and did some quick repairs on it.  Her mother is now applying for the medal.  I hope you are all well and the ladies of course, we seem to get  more pains than a greenhouse.

Richard is progressing well after his accident, I will try to get to see him before Christmas, I do not seem to have a lot of free time at the moment, and now Christmas is near trying to shop for 17 of the Tolan tribe ain't easy, the only bank withdrawals I can make at the moment are with a shotgun.  Let me know if there are any problems I can help with (minus marital and money ones), and I will do my best to get them sorted before Christmas.  I did deliver Ray the item you requested to your sister Mary, she is fine no need to worry, she has been moved to another care home.  In all the cuts they are making Derby City Council have closed three care homes and put the residents into privately run ones.  She has settled though and is well, but complaining about the move at her age it is not easy.

After one of our ladies got an unwelcome Email from somebody who is a Suez Vet, I now put the ladies names on a BCC so they do not get any unwelcome mail.  I have not forgotten them.

May I wish you all and your families a very happy Christmas, may you stay in good health, and 2012 be a good year for you all.
Take care of yourselves, and I shall drink a toast to you Christmas Day.

God Bless
Tony