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Last Updated
13/02/2009 22:08:21
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Dad's Army
(The Cash Counting Team)
We’ve all had
them at one time. The Monday morning going to work blues. But there
are no long faces or grouchiness when Dad’s Army parades on Monday
mornings in St Cuthbert’s vestry. Instead, as tables and chairs are set
out for money counting, there are smiling faces and cheerful banter,
although some waspish comments are made about the abilities of football
referees, particularly if Bolton or Millwall lost their Saturday game.
Whoever named this group “Dad’s Army” chose very aptly. Yet it has
neither a Captain Mainwaring (pronounced Mannaring), nor a Corporal
Jones, nor a ‘stupid boy’ Pike, rather an eclectic team of grand old
English Gentlemen, most with ex-army, navy or air force backgrounds, and
having had experience in such diverse occupations as Accounting,
Commerce, Engineering and the Legal Profession. Once the collection
bags are emptied onto the table, then the banter and laughter dies away
and is replaced by concentration on the serious business of counting,
checking and balancing the money. In about an hour it is on its way to
the bank and the parade is dismissed.
Nearly every
year however, about Christmas or New Year time, the members reassemble
at a local hostelry for an old comrade’s lunch.
From left to right: GWYN ROBERTS, JIM SUMNER, PETER WILLIS, EDDIE SAUL,
REG TURVILL, DENNY EDWARDS, OWEN LEARY (Rod Fisher and Ken Wilkinson not
shown)
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