{"id":17375,"date":"2026-08-31T22:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=17375"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:33:52","slug":"turned-up-with-his-arm-in-a-sling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=17375","title":{"rendered":"Turned Up With His Arm In A Sling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1979\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1979\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=593%2C76\" data-orig-size=\"593,76\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"environment\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=300%2C38\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=593%2C76\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?resize=593%2C76\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?w=593 593w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?resize=300%2C38 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Turned Up With His Arm In A Sling<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On a beautiful late summer\u2019s morning the team cleaned up at the community centre in preparation for the Village Show. A fair turnout, considering the heat and the age of some of the participants. Old soldier John just shows the attitude of the team by turning up with his arm in a sling and got on with the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=17305\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17305\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=17305\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Environment-Team.jpg?fit=500%2C372\" data-orig-size=\"500,372\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy A17 5G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1786356858&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Environment Team\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Environment-Team.jpg?fit=300%2C223\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Environment-Team.jpg?fit=500%2C372\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17305\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Environment-Team.jpg?resize=500%2C372\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Environment-Team.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Environment-Team.jpg?resize=300%2C223 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alan and Ieuan recently celebrated their 88th birthdays and are still active members of our unit. It proves that getting out and about and mixing with others is such a good thing to do. Their generation were brought up to do the right thing, and this rubs off on the people they meet. They have a tendency to tell of their exploits in the Second World War and how they enlisted when they lied about their age. They were two!! It must have been tough back then.<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP Turned Up With His Arm In A Sling &nbsp; On a beautiful late summer\u2019s morning the team cleaned up at the community centre in preparation for the Village Show. A fair turnout, considering the heat and the age of some of the participants. Old soldier John just shows the attitude of the team by turning up with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47,438],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-4wf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12904,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=12904","url_meta":{"origin":17375,"position":0},"title":"What An Outing !","author":"Alan Williams","date":"2nd February 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT TEAM What an outing on our first meeting of the year! 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