Golden Postbox

Today's the day ......................... for a coincidence

I listened this morning to 'Desert Island Discs'  on Radio 4 - and the guest was Dame Katherine Grainger, the multi-medal-winning Olympian Rower.

She talked about when she won her gold medal in the Women's Double Sculls at the London 2012 Olympic Games.  All British gold medal winners at these games had the honour bestowed on them of having a postbox painted gold in their home towns - and a plaque on it detailing their achievement.  She said that, in her case, the authorities had got things a bit wrong and instead of having her box in Glasgow where she was born, they'd put it in Aberdeen.  She said she didn't mind because that was where her grandparents had lived and she had spent many happy times there.  

Anyway, it got me thinking about the last time we were in Aberdeen back in October 2015.  We were with Ron and Margaret and we were doing a Treasure Hunt which involved following clues which took us round the city centre.  There were questions asked that you had to find the answers to which involved a bit of detective work - and a lot of looking around at buildings, signs and other architectural features.  And, believe it or not, one of the things we came across was Katherine Grainger's golden postbox.

So - in the absence of any photograph taken today on this dismal, wet day - here's one I took back then .......................