Rememberance Sunday tea run - remembering Karen Woo

Leaving home this morning I ran through the archway onto the Old High Street and Bowling Green.  The local authorities were busy preparing the Green for the Remembrance Service.  It was frosty crisp, the sun shone and the autumn colours look resplendent in the morning sunshine.    My running friend and I spent an enjoyable 5K catching up with the events of our respective lives.  Returning home more organisation had taken place on the Green, and parked up a side street the St Johns Ambulance crew were setting up chairs.  Having run by, I doubled back, and asking them if they had any warm drinks they responded with a negative, but they would love a cuppa :)  

Earlier today I saw a post on a social media site written by the mother of Karen Woo.  Karen was someone who I taught over a number of years, as part of the Stevenage Youth Dance Company.  Karen would go on to have a sparkling career in Contemporary Dance.  I enjoyed many conversations with her after performances whilst she was on tour and I, also working somewhere in the UK, was able to catch up with her.  She left dance to become a doctor, and was sadly killed in Afghanistan whilst taking medical supplies to villages in the mountains. 

In her post, Karen's mother Lynn talked about her visit to Westminster Abbey this week to see a poppy on which Karen's name was written in the field of remembrance.  It is over 9 years since Karen was killed.  Today I remember her laugh, her smile, her creativity, her inquisitive mind, her astute reflection, and she and Lucy being two of the first passengers I drove in my Triumph Herald when I passed my driving test. 

I made tea for the St Johns Ambulance crew and took them a tray, compete with biscuits.  

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