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Re: Bill
Another world Bill.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 24, 2015 at 9:55 AM
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C.C.T.
Goodness! These are awesome sir!
posted by
BC-A
on September 23, 2015 at 2:58 PM
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Re: Justi
Yes indeed Justi, it was safer to live in the country, but not far enough from France the sea was our saviour and eventually the USA.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 23, 2015 at 11:33 AM
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Re: Kabu
No one has to have the feel for that life Kabu, probably brought up to it. Of course farm laborers wages were pitiful here, but the farmer probably employed 15 men where as now he may only have one. We used to get the occasional parcel from USA. but sniff, sniff, I can't remember any from Canada. Well our copybook was probably dirt-ed in Australia, we shall never know.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 23, 2015 at 11:31 AM
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Yes they do in a way A, but they also bring out the worst in some who want to live better than others.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 23, 2015 at 11:25 AM
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Re: adnohr
No, I don't think so Adnohr it is just too sad for me even after this time. You know the feeling.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 23, 2015 at 11:23 AM
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Re: Taps
Well Taps I did not think it was particularly interesting, It is only about country life as it was once.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 23, 2015 at 11:19 AM
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Re: I thought WE had it tough in the war years, but I see we only
Well Pat sadly it was the same that was said after the First World War. That's what my mother told me. Yes it is not very nice to feel afraid each day, one can't really blame those who move, it is the same old thing though, some cannot even afford to do that. England is roughly the size of California, no one minds if there are a couple of dozen refugees in each town, but it is when they colonize a town or streets and the residents become fearful that has happened.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 23, 2015 at 11:16 AM
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Re: FS
It is all soon forgotten FS.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 23, 2015 at 11:09 AM
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It is interesting reading about how things were...An interesting conclusion the speaker arrives at.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 23, 2015 at 5:46 AM
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I thought WE had it tough in the war years, but I see we only
had a hint. And there you were, you Brits, with not enough bomb shelters, unable to flee the devastation. I think of this sometimes as the refugees from Syria flood into England and other parts of Europe. Where are the wizards and their magic wands to take the destroyers out of the picture? What happened to the idea of that war to end them all?
posted by
Pat_B
on September 23, 2015 at 3:30 AM
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Very interesting first part. I take it that it is to be continued.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 22, 2015 at 11:29 PM
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You will continue from your last sentence and not leave us hanging, will you? Very pensive poem...a bit of desperation there.
posted by
adnohr
on September 22, 2015 at 8:04 PM
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I can't imagine what it was like to live like that....war times bring out the best
posted by
Annicita
on September 22, 2015 at 6:18 PM
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We sent war parcels to Mother's cousin in England for some years after the war and finally brought them to Australia. Dad had to have a job waiting for the husband. Well it was on the farm of course. The chap was no good at farming.
posted by
Kabu
on September 22, 2015 at 12:28 PM
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Those war days were hard anyway you sliced them weren't they? This was a very good post.
posted by
Justi
on September 22, 2015 at 12:17 PM
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