Grandfather's Long Leap medal from 1905
Robert Harper
In 1905 the long jump was called the long leap, and 19ft 10inches is some leap for a young man who worked as a shepherd. He won 10 shillings for that jump. That was before he moved to Argentina and exchanged looking after sheep for herding cattle on the pampas.
The medal is silver and being a soft metal it has two nicks on the lower edge where I have used it to unlock supermarket trollies.
I have not won any medals and for my grandchildren many things will remain unlocked.
The Iron Photographer Challenge
Here are the elements for IP 26:
1 - a key
2 - something old
3 - close up
The first element is a key. You can take this literally or metaphorically. If you go the metaphoric route, we'd appreciate it if you can offer up a convincing road map for it.
When we say something old we're referring to something that has existed for a long time. I know we're going to be asked to define 'a long time' (hell, given past IP experience, we're probably going to be asked to define 'exist'). So let's just say 'old' means something at least 20 years old. BUT the old thing cannot also be the key. You can have an old key, but the key must have a separate existence from the old thing (there's that 'exist' again).
The final element, close up, should be fairly self explanatory.
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