[Skybird]

Apropos. there is one thing on my mind since some weeks, that I felt all the time I need to bring into order again. Why haven't I earlier...

Last christmas or the christmas before, I don't exactly remember, i posted a photo of a house in my neighbourhood with a hilarious amount of very "kitschig" christmas LED figures and christmas lightshow and such, and I questioned the taste and the mental sanity of the people doing that, a British soldier family, that even had set up a box where they wanted to collect money for the power bill. I said I read the poster on the fly, which I did from my bicycle - but I just read the headline - not the small print. Bad mistake.

Last month another appartment owner in my house told me what it actually was about. The British family actually collected money that way to buy toys as christmas presents for the kids of British soldiers serving and sometimes having fallen in Iraq or Afghanistan. As i heared last month, they collected around 300 Euros, and payed the powerbill themselves

To those of you remembering my post and the picture, I have to say this:

I regret my mockery of that time, caused by my own fault when not having read that sign completely. I express my respect for the intention of the family trying to do somethign about the issue on their mind, and hereby apologize. I really made an idiot of myself back then. I'm sorry.

I hereby also apologize to the members of 1st infantry batallion, Yorkshire Regiment, currently stationed in my home town. The units are rotating every two years or so , but I think they were already here back then.

P.S.
The family in question is no longer here, the house stands empty since some months.