David J. Rose

By djrose007

An amazing fortune cookie!

Main blip is of Ziggy in his most popular pose, although he does love his morning walks. He'll get evening walks too if this incessant rain ever stops! 
For those that saw my blip about our good Chinese neighbours, and Ruby giving me a handful of Fortune Cookies for the girls, this is a little follow on.
They, like most people, didn't eat the cookies, they are very sweet and hard, but the blip is the fortune telling strip of paper that was in one of them. See Extra.
"You will move to a wonderful new home in the coming year", couldn't be more accurate, the only thing that's missing is the destination for the location of the home.
It will probably be in August when Julia gets her first posting as an Officer. She will pass out as a Flying Officer, one rank up from a Pilot Officer, due to her previous service. She initially joined the RAF in November 2008 so she's coming up for 17 years next November. That is 4 more years than I served, and I got to the dizzying heights of 'Corporal'.

It was at the end of 1973 when the Admin Officer, at RAF Luqa, Malta, called me to his office he told me I had been promoted and I'll be posted to RAF Boddington, which is between Cheltenham and Gloucester, I was very pleased apart from the posting back to the UK.
I asked him if I could stay in Malta. He replied that I could, certainly, stay in Malta but I wouldn't get the promotion. In those days it was a good leap in pay from SAC (Senior Aircraftsman) to Corporal so I accepted with a good grace.
I didn't visit Malta again until 2012, late September, to attend the Malta International Airshow. Quite amazing that I met people that I had known when I was staioned there. 
The biggest shock was when I was walking through the fishing village of Marsaxlokk and said 'Bonju' to an old man sitting outside his front door. He spoke back to me saying he knew me. When I asked where he knew me from he said "I knew you at the Sailing Club". When I asked his name I did remember him, but I would never have recognised him. I was astonished that he recognised me, 38 years later!
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