HAPPY NEW WEEK!
Last week's Chat thread is here.
Anyone can watch the partial solar eclipse here. U.K.: tomorrow morning at 5:30 a.m. Eastern U.S.: tonight at 12:30 a.m.California: tonight at 9:30 p.m.
Brenda lucky you ...
Memories of my Dad who did the electrical wiring on Spitfires at Vickers Supermarine during the second WW...
We have had days and nights of modern planes flying over head from Lossiemouth. It scares me to think where they will be off to after these excercises .
No problem, HEATHER. I reported myself not so long ago :-)))
Wendy, I don't know why, but we have had tornado jet fighters and low flying chipmunk helicopters here. The house literally, shakes. They don't seem to be at the same time as air displays. The noise of them must be so frightening to those in war zones.
Heather: We were very moved some years ago when we visited Crete, and saw the rows and rows of white crosses: when I read some of the dates on them and the ages of the young men, I wept. It was also very touching how fond the Greeks are of us British, since those terrible days.
Just went for a walk, as they said we would now stay dry until tonight. Yes !! I got drenched.
Linda, The thing that surprises me, is how my Mother coped. She stayed at home, with a baby ( my sister. Two babies by the end of the war. ) right through the war. My Father was away with the RAF. When I think back to all the bombed sites nearby, which were there for many years after the war, I now realise how frightened and yet, how strong, she must have been.
They were tough in those days, Brenda! My poor Mother had to take in lodgers when she stopped working in a munitions factory, as you had to either work or take someone in. We had some rather weird guests, by the sound of it. They were, however, out in the country and so were able to keep chickens and barter the eggs for extra food from other people. My brother was born and she wondered if she should have brought a child into the world, it seemed so awful at the time.
Oh my. Half an inch of rain last night! All the neighbors are smiling and twittering on about it. Off to gym; will catch up later.
Wow, Annette, so pleased for you. I wish you would take our inches though, LOL