It rained a lot!The Water Conservators’ Team, Wardens Keith and Mike, and I, together with the banner-bearer, Liveryman Simon, formed up in St Martin le Grand on 14 November. We waited longer than usual to start because the Show observed two minutes silence for those affected by the Paris atrocities. The fireworks at the end of the Show were replaced by tricolour illuminations.
Walking with about 20 Modern Livery Companies and about two-thirds down the pecking order has some merit – all the children are already equipped with whistles, hats, flags, sweets…. - but Mike had a kilo or two in his pocket for the extra hungry. The reception, from equally wet spectators, was warm and interested, and not to be missed. After passing the Lord Mayor and his party, we stop for lunch – kindly arranged by the Master Mariner on HQS Wellington. Then we’re off again, uphill, back to St Martin le Grand.
I like fire engines. Actually this one performed a key task of stopping us getting ahead of our station in City life. Our rear was protected by an enormous John Deere tractor – and true to form, those watching TV missed us as the commentator rushed to interview the tractor!Thanks go to Firefighters’ Master and Company for organising our participation, doing a better job then the Water Conservators did in organising the weather. But Keith, Mike, Simon and I did our best.
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