badge of honour

heya

an unexpected gift turned up for me then, look you see. one that was quite surprising, as is also the discovery that with this brand new format of doing posts on this blog (or "blog posts") now has decided to not allow me to centre pictures nicely. cheers for that. 

what turned up for me? the title is your clue here, or rather tells you probably all that you would directly need to know. indeed, someone kindly, and initially in an anonymous way, sent me a badge. not just any badge, though. it was a badge what left me totally and utterly confused as to who, or what, it was, or meant. 

i have every confidence that the clarity of Commodore 64 mode means there is no need for me to explain what it is. that and the fact that there is a non Commodore 64 mode image below. but, for the sake of a narrative, it is a picture of a young lad with "Gonch" written on it, or maybe it was that was the name of the young lad. 

no, i had absolutely no idea who or what this was. rather than just "google it", i threw the matter to the wilds of social media, and some (very good) friends quickly advised me that this is in fact a character called Gonch off of Grange Hill, which was a popular show when we were kids. another friend also shared a link to something called an urban dictionary to show what the term gonch meant, but alas i was not brave enough to click on it. 

eventually the patron of the badge stepped forward. no less a higher ranking member of our society that the viscount of stockton, the marquess of tees valley and the incumbent (but secret) chairman of this sage group what is fighting the plague purchased it for me. it is such generosity for which he is noted, and is a credit to the aristocracy and the ruling classes. 

yes, he was a little distressed (and possibly somewhat disheartened) to learn that i had absolutely no idea who this was. he conceded, however that in retrospect it might have been a good idea to select a badge of one of the more rather well known characters off of (or out of) Grange Hill. on further reflection, he could not actually recall what inspired the purchase in the first instance. 

so indeed, this badge is now mine, and i can assure you it has taken a most prestigious and prominent place in my significant badge collection. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!