Last Friday the Triplets staged another memorable event!
As my more regular readers know, I am an avid coin collector. I keep all coins - and indeed bills, if I get lucky! - in a wooden dish, and total them up at the end of the year. Then I spend them all during January.
This year, however, I didn't get around to spending the coins, and decided to involve my Triplets in their disposal.
This is what we did.
All the coins of low denomination (up to 5 pence) were handed in a small sack to Triplet J, who became the Keeper of the Purse for the evening. At certain strategic junctions he handed half a dozen coins to each of us.
Do I have your attention? Is the excitement building up?
We met up after work, at 16:30 precisely, and walked to Blackfriars Bridge. Half way across the bridge, Operation Coin Drop began. To wit, we began to drop, very secretively, the lucky coins I had collected during 2016, so as to increase the luck and happiness of the lucky individuals who were destined to find them.
Now obviously you don't want anyone to see or hear what you are doing! People running after you yelling, 'You dropped a coin, Mam!' is not at all in the spirit of the exercise, not at all!
Nor do you want to attract the attention of some small avaricious child, who notices what you are doing and proceeds to follow you around with the tenacity a conscientious gumshoe.
Therefore we proceeded very very cautiously, if not to say suspiciously conspiratorially! After the first few amateurish attempts my fellow Triplets learned quickly to drop their coins as unobtrusively as I did, and we managed to get rid of about 200 coins without incident or exposure.
As we were walking & dropping, acting all innocent and talking inconsequentially about inanely harmless topics, we wended our way along the Thames Embankment, direction Tower Bridge, just opposite St Katherine Docks.
Our final destination was the excellent chop house I had frequented before and was keen to introduce to my fellow Triplets. Once there we invested the larger coins and bills in liquid refreshments, and partook of the vittles so splendidly produced by said chop house.
If you are interested in the details of our walk, here is a link to the map:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tower+Bridge/@51.5060708,-0.0961275,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x9e78421a085a6f2d!8m2!3d51.5054564!4d-0.0753565
But enough wordy content, here are the photos! As you can see, the weather started out overcast, but improved magnificently later on. We were actually able to sit outside of the chop house until about 21:00, when we finally retraced our steps and went home.
Great fun was had by all, it was a simply monumental evening!
