September 3rd, words from my granny
I felt compelled to put this somewhere other than my email inbox. My granny is..around 84 now (and yep she has got herself online, she rocks :) )
" Hi Catherine
Not sure when you will receive this- probably find it very boring, but had a feeling you may be interested in how I felt all those years ago =It was actually 67 years ago at almost exactly this time of day -11.00 a.m to be exact -
I was 19 years old working in the Castle Hotel Lynton- Had returned from School in Switzerland and was " filling in" as we called it in those days a sort of Gap Year -
At 11-00 a.m the Prime Minister spoke on the Radio ( No TV of course} This morning on Radio 4 this message was repeated just as it was all those years ago - " Germany has invaded Poland against the wishes of the League
of Nations- We are now at war with Germany" I was washing lettuce at the time and KNEW that I would always remember those words - Where I was - and what I was doing _( have a feeling there was a slug in the Lettuce! ) I was
partly scared but mostly I think excited, as unlike my Mum I had no idea of the reality of war -- Those words
" We are now at war with Germany" seemed unreal- Five minutes later the Sirens went ---- False alarm, someone somewhere pressed the wrong button- At that moment life as I had known it and expected it to be was over- perhaps it is similar events throughout the centuries that has kept our world turning - Who knows?
Enough of this It was Radio 4 this morning that brought it all back- I,m not sure that we made such a good job of the peace as we did of winning the war -- Maybe we were all tired "
" Hi Catherine
Not sure when you will receive this- probably find it very boring, but had a feeling you may be interested in how I felt all those years ago =It was actually 67 years ago at almost exactly this time of day -11.00 a.m to be exact -
I was 19 years old working in the Castle Hotel Lynton- Had returned from School in Switzerland and was " filling in" as we called it in those days a sort of Gap Year -
At 11-00 a.m the Prime Minister spoke on the Radio ( No TV of course} This morning on Radio 4 this message was repeated just as it was all those years ago - " Germany has invaded Poland against the wishes of the League
of Nations- We are now at war with Germany" I was washing lettuce at the time and KNEW that I would always remember those words - Where I was - and what I was doing _( have a feeling there was a slug in the Lettuce! ) I was
partly scared but mostly I think excited, as unlike my Mum I had no idea of the reality of war -- Those words
" We are now at war with Germany" seemed unreal- Five minutes later the Sirens went ---- False alarm, someone somewhere pressed the wrong button- At that moment life as I had known it and expected it to be was over- perhaps it is similar events throughout the centuries that has kept our world turning - Who knows?
Enough of this It was Radio 4 this morning that brought it all back- I,m not sure that we made such a good job of the peace as we did of winning the war -- Maybe we were all tired "