The Mason Manifesto for Life

The Mason Manifesto for Life.

It all began a long time agoe. Must be the late 1920's, on a railway platform in the midlands of England, where each working day morning a young porter would greet the train at Brownhills for Walsall and when all were on, would blow his whistle and the train would depart, in a cloud of steam. Our young porter would however have a regular young lady passenger,irritate him, by being on the platform "Just in Time' when he would open a door and she would jump aboard with a smile.

One morning, it would all too much for our gallant porter, when the train was leaving, she ran down the platform and tried to open a carriage door and was carried along by it and not in it. Our porter blew his whistle  as hard as he could and the train stopped. In front of all, he told the young lady what he thought of her stupid action, opened the door and she, with an air of eluffness and her smile,joined the early morning travelers. Thus this encounter of encounters, was the beginnings of a life long romance,along which he was never to speak a harsh word to her again, in fact he was to sing to her of his thoughts, all their time together.

They were married in 1928,this Ted and Bella as they called each other.From William Edward, the Edward form President Rosavelt, I suppose,also known as Ted or Teddy. Bella came from, Gertrude Isabel Lucy, Ted's very romantic vision of his wife, They were given a Gold Sovereign as a Wedding present from Ted's parents, so they would never be penny-less and so it was that the coin was kept all their lives, through the highs and lows,. Eventually to be handed down to their son. That was the idea!

We will follow the journey of this coin, until and after their passing. They were never to be wealthy, but more importantly, they were never to be poor, simply a couple who gave all they met, their friendly-ness and honesty. Along the way came a gold chain , with variegated links, from Ted's father, to which the gold  sovereign was of course attached. Eventually Ted's Long Service watch from British Rail (45 years).

In 1930 came the birth of their daughter Joyce Veronica, followed in 1935 their son Malcolm Edgar - the author of this 'Manifesto for Life'.

The thirties gave grief to all with the great depression. Luckily Ted and Bella were in Lydney, Gloucestershire, Ted as a signalman and Bella running the Lydney Docks Post Office, with large cellars, which came useful in the 1940's. A Large house at each end of a massive stone row of nine houses with a larger one in the middle ( the Railway Hotel).

The son spent is young years, giving grief to Ted and Bella. First came at age around three years with a Mastoid and nearly two years of Hospitalisation, followed by the lads adventures of searching for survivors of Fighter and Bomber aircraft crashes, both British and German, following the bombing of Bristol. The full story was told in my first published essay. For money, would with friends, search for sheep -dead or trapped in mud, following flooding of the river Severn banks, known as the 'Tack'!.Can't remember how much Farmer Hedmund's gave us, but well worth the telling off by mother, for coming home covered in mud. To add to Ted and Bell's delema I was attacked by a swarm of Wasp's, they promptly put me in bath with disinfectant or the like and I survived. Polio in 1948, when I had to learn  to walk again . All this time Ted and Bella gave their children their support and the idea, that nothing was impossible.

Where was that pesky sister of mine,yes, there with her friend Dawn,cooking up ideas to taunt me, no doubt.

Nearly there to the body of my 'Manifesto for Life' and the support these two, Ted ad Bella gave me along the way, plus numerous other people and most kindly of all, endeavouring to quelle the riot of youth, that was me. That dear reader, did not deter me at the age of 11 or 12, stating to my parents and to my school. 'I will not do homework, now or in the future'. Mother simply said; it is your choice Malcolm and you will have to deal with the teachers. I did of course and that was how it was and later on, not studying after lunch if I could help it. I obtained my degree's and diploma's doing courses I loved. A breeze!, not exactly I must say, as I was burnt out in the end, through determination to always work from first principles and or develop theories of my own           

The final Exam for the Masters level (Thermodynamics), there was a question that required calculations as this subject is much endowed with mathematics. I was running out of time. Instead of going though a well known process, I developed quickly from first principles the formulea the good examiner expected us to use. Well!, said Professor Bannister after wards. MASON you did not answer the question. However you rather cleverly did an alternative answer. In view of your inovative response, I have given you full credit, how ever do  not do it again-  some hope, I thought.

Just before I left school for Collages and University etc, they wrote in  my autograph book.
Father - It is easy enough to be pleasant, when life goes along like a song. But the man who is worthwhile is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong
Mother - I simply cannot find. My guess is something like 'Hmm, well, I understand you are you. Do your best.Strange how almost the same words were used my their daughter, many years later, about a family matter, of believing.

English teacher Sarah Rose Chinn-
To thine own self be TRUE and it must follow,as night the day, thou cans't be false to any man.HAMLET - by William Shakespeare.
And so it was that Malcolm Edgar Mason set off, on a journey into the unknown.
Here I must quote-" I said to the man at the gate of the year, give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown and he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your and into the had of God.
That shall be to you, better than light or the known way.
By Minnie Louise Haskins a long time agoe, may be over a hundred years.
Included in the Christmas message of King George V1, 1939,

Ha, nearly forgot. At the end of the fourties came a Canadian One Dollar Note, which was given to me,by my fathers Uncle in CANADA, so that I would never be without. Then later appeared a 100,000 German Mark and a German EURO, which kind of follows the tradition of the Sovereign given to my Mother and Father in 1928. If only I could retrieve it.

Lets go
HOPE. A good word and one we must all work on, no matter what befalls us, just as my father said. At the age of about ten came my first 'Letter of Hope'. To my mother as I recall.I had been out on the muddy fields on the banks of the river Severn England, looking for downed aircraft,RAF or Luft-Waffa, after a raid on Bristol in the 1940's. My shoes were filled with mud, my  clothes the same and very smelly. The Note said something like MUM - Sorry, hope you won't be angry and placed it on my clothes, whilst I hid in the cellar. Come up here, you bad boy,put your clothes back on,where upon she put me in a warm bath and I washed myself; clothes; shoes et al. Many letters followed over the years, to people in trouble.

HOPE again - A good word and as I grew older, I sent many "Messages of Hope" to people I considered needed help along the lifes way. My last one to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, on the subject of the Referendum to stay or leave the European Union, now known as Brexit, with the request,that she should not sign any document, until the matter is sorted out, satisfacturally to all. . No hang on, that's not quite right
A tweet in March after UK PM's over reaction on the Russian incident and missing the point of " What is really needed is the exact location of the source of the Nerve agent and the closing of any route into asasinators/agents hands.
Quote - UK/Russia- A LETTER of HOPE- I Hope for all involved, Mrs May and Mr Putin  Talk and Discuss the Nerve Agent problem.UK send Russia the Portland Down report plus sample/Resin so they can investigate/reciprocate their ideas, likely source, Access closure- end of quote. Remember folks, numerous Countries develope nasty substances, including the UK ; USA other European countries ; Middle East etc.
Any way getting back to Brexit, I later wrote numerous tweets on the subject basically calling fir a second referendum,suggesting BRITS-IN, a good slogan, or decide to stay in, any way.
CRUELTY From an early age I became aware of how cruel people could be. Like nasty teenagers, hanging chicks to die on string nooses. Of farmers cutting the feet of sheep, when they had foot- rot. I later helped my mother in her campaign to stop, Pig Sticking,when local pig owners called a pig killer to their backyard pigsty. The campaign was successful and led to only humane killing by licenced butchers. On through many efforts to stop cruelly to this day, with the discusting Live Animal Exports, from here in Australia. All in my blog "Animals for Slaughter" www.thinktrue2008.blospot.com  Oct 2012.A gentle run through my life on this subject. It was and is a blog to help people like Animals Australia. I proved without any doubt that Live Exports of Animals for slaughter, was and is not necessary, as the New Zealanders have proved time and time again. The farms would remain the same,also truck transport to coast, where there would be built Abbatoirs, designed to kill according to customers wishes (With certain limits of course) but as humain as possible, then container shipped - chilled.

Mans Inhumanity to Man. Has countless examples through out History. I'll start with a Royal - King Richard the so called Lion Heart. He tore his way through the Middle East slaughtering on contact with the Muslim World, men women and children in the name England and Christianity as he saw it. He was stopped of course in the end , by a stronger man and his armies. Dark days. The terrible 2019 events in New Zealand will lead to, stronger people (Governments) than, the Australian purpertrator of hate and violence.
most likely by means tackling the media outlets (Social and Main stream) who allow, hate message propaganda, to get out on their platforms, plus our own efforts when we hear hate speech.
Never forget, other rulers and despots, such as Stalin of Russia; Pol Pot of Cambodia and of course Adolf Hitler and his campaign to stamp out Gypsies; Gays and in particular Jews in Europe or anywhere really. The Syrian President Assad and his regeme, pure, Genocide using conventional and chemical weapons.

I am sorry  now to include my adopted homeland that of Australia and its mandatory detention on off shore islands of refugees who arrived by private boat (fee paying),to escape terrible happenings in their homelands.
Shame on our Government, Prime Minister down. I regularly support and have my say to The Refugee Council of Australia, including any on - line, petition's or survey's. I have my own ideas on how to get them off Manus and Nauru, If only I were a rich man, do b, do b do!. I had ideas to get them all off to safety,but I think they were too radicle and so I left it
UK my birth place, it is almost the same and they,being the sometimes deavius people they are, have ways
to bring in refugees from Europe safely." They seek him here, they seek him there,that damned illusive Pimpernel " or should I say "Them" these days.

Cruelty, has been with us for ever, it would seem and it is very difficult to stamp out, particularly when Money is involved.

Simpathy
Always difficult one, as it is the circumstances of the telling that is important.
Simpathy for people who are in trouble, by health; caught up in civil strife or wars; loss of loved ones etc. Our genuine simpathy and thoughts,go out to them. I have of course, endeavoured to write words of comfort to them.
Then there is the sinister one, of the executioner, who simpathises with the victims delema.,But I am going to shoot you anyway.
The in between probably is less severe."I know I owe you money and possessions, but as I feel you cannot get to me, I simpathise, but no action from me".
Tides turn , with help from unexpected sources.- who knows what tomorrow will bring, to any one of us.
It must be known where that Sovereign and Legacy,went

It is Time
I think 'It is time' to drawn this manifesto to close, with some personal thoughts on Family and families of the World.
Lets not forget the words for my Blogs and Tweet's  True;Percieve;Reconcile and Perfidy.
Now where is that Sovereign and Legacy, promised by my sister, just before she died suddenly of a burst Aoorta. I have the intent in writing.For my sister and her husband, it was a Love Story to the end of both of them,as it is for my wife Patricia and I to this, our 57th wedding aniversary-31March 2019, yes today.
We have lost six friends and partners,over the last year who have had their own stories to tell of Life and Marriage. Three men and three women. Three people remain Pamela; Margaret; Ken,and Micheal who will somehow get through.
The joining of that sovereign to the gold chain and watch,will one day take place.
Though out this story, has always been my 'Crying Inside' for Men;Women and Children,devastated by Mans Inhumanity to Man. Right now children,millions of them, are enduring the onslaught of war and conflicts,also innocent civilian Mums and Dads plus Grandmas and Grandads, bought about by ruthless leaders and despots.
Those wives and children of terrorists in the middle east camps, must be brought home, to their families,
as it is terrible not to give them sanctury in their home countries.
We must all reconcile and give them Sanctury and Love. To this end, is my prayer, written some time agoe.
"May I borrow your mind, for just and little while." (Jenny Green- memorial service yesterday 29 March)
A prayer for all. - May we in our own way, send out a prayer of Hope;Love and Understanding.
Hope. For all those people whose circumstances are so much worse than ours. In the same way as other people messaged to us, when we were down.
Love. To all who have never known love and are desperately searching for, maybe just one word from us.
We who are so fortunate to know and experience its life giving power.
Understanding. To endeavour to understand, the ways,apprehensions; Faiths; and Ideas of others.
We can do this, hopefully not just today,but at all times."
Please "LISTEN to the WINDS of CHANGE"    We must all accept change like change its self and be Better for the Experience (My quote from way back n time)

That is about it, finally finished on 30th March2019, Patricia a I's 57th Wedding Anniversary.

My Stories are all based on Facts as I Remember them. 

Malcolm E Mason.

Notes;
Regretably I cannot include all the Letters of Hope, Letters to Heads of state around the World, including those of our Royal family.Pluss Essays of one kind or another
Just few of the projects and submissions to inquiries like.
Princess Dianna's crash.
My nearly sixty year, project to show that Toyota was and is the lead supplier of vehicles to Terrorists and
Despotic regemes
My Airport  Protection program - Anti Terrorist
My involvement in the capture of Saddam Hussien- Here I set up  a system for Mr Rumsfeld and Mr Powell, got it under way,. They missed the target the first sweep, then I prompted them again, to within a Bulls roar and they had him. Big reward for help they said- Nothing dear folks, it went to freinds!!.
Lockerbie of course, through Mrs Thatchers office.
MH380 n the relevent blog.
Just read The 9/11 commission Report. They missed the most important item of thebuildings vunerable construction (House of Cards) and the routeof the Laden, companies possible access to design and construction detail.
The blog - list will be published soon.
There were many Radio programs produced and broadcast Australia UK and FRANCE.
Saigon revisited. a story of reconciliation with a prayer for peace and the sounding of a Bell.
Cairo revisited and Masons quick  exit on the last VC10 as the Isrealis  attacked in  1967!
G'day Peace Keepers.  and man y ore
FIN