Comments on: My First Bonfire http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/ hello! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.4-bleeding By: Lesley http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8163 Lesley Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:42:27 +0000 http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8163 Aha.... Turkish delight? Aha…. Turkish delight?

]]> By: Tom Fearon http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8162 Tom Fearon Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:40:37 +0000 http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8162 Hi Dont worry about the reply if you are busy, I was not sure if I had the right email address as I have two on file. I know what you mean about finding the time. I am taking advantage of the inclement weather to catch up on all my mail because tomorrow the sun will shine and there are other things to do!!!. Hi Dont worry about the reply if you are busy, I was not sure if I had the right email address as I have two on file. I know what you mean about finding the time. I am taking advantage of the inclement weather to catch up on all my mail because tomorrow the sun will shine and there are other things to do!!!.

]]> By: Lesley http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8161 Lesley Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:28:01 +0000 http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8161 Yes. Tom, I too remember being carried into my Pop's Anderson shelter, cunningly disguised as a garden. I thought we were playing 'House' as they told me it was a big "Dolls' House". Pop used to sing: "are you happy in your work?" and we wound reply: "Sure we are!". And there were a lot of barrels rolled out and Lily Marlenes sung as well. Did you have a Micky Mouse gas mask? I found a pic of one just like mine yesterday. I think it was on the link to childhood in the war. Even after I started school, we used to have regular 'air raid exercises', when we all trailed out into the schoolyard and sat on the benches all around the huge shed of an air raid shelter in the school grounds. I think we only had candle light in there too so it was a bit scary. yes... hdd your Email, thought I had replied, but, being retired, I am, of course, busier than I ever was when I had a career! Yes. Tom, I too remember being carried into my Pop’s Anderson shelter, cunningly disguised as a garden.

I thought we were playing ‘House’ as they told me it was a big “Dolls’ House”. Pop used to sing: “are you happy in your work?” and we wound reply: “Sure we are!”. And there were a lot of barrels rolled out and Lily Marlenes sung as well.

Did you have a Micky Mouse gas mask? I found a pic of one just like mine yesterday. I think it was on the link to childhood in the war.

Even after I started school, we used to have regular ‘air raid exercises’, when we all trailed out into the schoolyard and sat on the benches all around the huge shed of an air raid shelter in the school grounds. I think we only had candle light in there too so it was a bit scary.

yes… hdd your Email, thought I had replied, but, being retired, I am, of course, busier than I ever was when I had a career!

]]> By: Tom Fearon http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8160 Tom Fearon Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:15:44 +0000 http://gowen.org/my-first-bonfire/#comment-8160 Hi Lesley, I find your memorys of your early years fascinating as it so closely mirrors my own. My earliest memorys are also are of being picked up half asleep in a blacked out house and being taken this time to an air raid shelter as there had probably been a siren gone off. When you think that we would only have been 2-3 years of age at the time it must have been seared in our memorys. By the way did you get my email. Tom Hi Lesley,
I find your memorys of your early years fascinating as it so closely mirrors my own. My earliest memorys are also are of being picked up half asleep in a blacked out house and being taken this time to an air raid shelter as there had probably been a siren gone off. When you think that we would only have been 2-3 years of age at the time it must have been seared in our memorys. By the way did you get my email. Tom

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