Very proud

[janedavitt]

Mum just emailed to say my cousin Angus Jackson has been awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for 'reconstruction efforts in Southern Iraq.'. So proud of him. His company has been out there for years helping to get clean water to the people and as you can imagine it's been very worrying for us all as it's not that safe out there. Angus is younger than me so it's hard for me to get it in my head that he's a grown man with a son of his own; I remember the little scamp I used to babysit ::g::

Seeing the odd BBC news clip of him in a bulletproof vest was very surreal.

He's in the list here

And now I'm getting a bit choked up wishing Granny and Grandad were still alive because they would've just been so proud of him.