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Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
Sacha wrote:
My husband lived in Essex during the war and he has memories much like yours. He recalls the vapour trails and rat-a-tat-a-tat. He was born in 1933 and his (much) older brothers, being in reserved occupations, were in the fire brigade and went up to London on many, many nights to fight fires caused by the Blitz. He has several memories of planes over his rural bit of Essex. You two should meet one day -I'll supply the amber liquid! When I was at bawdy school and walking n the Downs (in a crocoodile!) with the rest of the kids, I unforget seeing a lumpy line of black puffs of smoke marching across the sky, and a big red flash. This was followed by the Boom-boom-boom-boo-boo-boom as the Bofors opened-up in Newhaven-ish, then the crud-crud-crud-crud-crud-crud-*THUD!* of things going off over the Channel. I claimed the hit (doodle-bug) for my stepfather-to-be, who was OIC a battery in Newhaven-ish. What seemed like five minutes late the sound of the explosion ame grumpity-bumpity-grOWl-thud-thud-thud, reflected off the French coast. An early lesson in the speed of sound. -- Rusty |
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