10/07/2020
Many groans an moans this mornin as me mum assembled her stuff to start her accounts. This is a job that's truly onerous or a haemorrhoid - a right pain in the arse. Mum will do no more than I months accounts per week. She keeps mutterin about 'hands on' an not shiftin paper from one box to another.
Sammy boy is running backwards an forwards with the occasional stop fer afternoon fuss an hopin for shortbread. I told him we all might get some if you do head stands fer us mum.... an Sammy is thinkin about it.
Only the Lonely
Issy wakes up to find Alex in a waspish mood cos he didn't touch her... now he's wonderin what on earth it will take to please this Amazon of women. He cannot do anything right an this he tells Alex finally an plus they have a job to do an fer the foreseeable future their very lives depend on a task to complete with total commitment an an not too be side tracked.... I say felt the prpverbial silver bullet hit him hard between the eyes, Then she calmly stepped into full hikon gear ready to walk the passes with their French and Basque guides. Alex's backside once again having bounce an rhythm an a life of its own admired by all whose eyes fell below her waist.
The terrain was rough an hard goin. Blisters were already formin another hadn't started to climb above the tree line yet but on they pushed wi Issy makin notes. Makin sketches. This would continue until thebyrail was known an an alternative trail as a plan B. Goat an sheep huts served as night shelters where feet were soaked, blisters cut an dressed. Pain ignored. The honey mooners spent every moment on the mountains an the slightest disturbance sent Issy into a frenzied amorous clinch lookin Alex straight in the eye to be met with diamonds of hidden depths or flint chips in return an Alex either pliant in his arms or the cobra about to strike.
The imminent danger passed an Issy promised hisself the time had come to test the ice maiden......
The first of their expeditions wuz almost upon them an their worst danger was bein caught by the Vichy French. ..
Plans were made fer the next big mission an raid. Accordin to Bomber Harris whonwas the gaffer of bomber command, to demoralise was to remove wish to continue to fight. The chosen target was Dresden. Another fact was that Albert Speer, Hitlers archetect had built industry into the jeart of Germen towns an cities using civilians as human shields an us Brits knew this....The British had squadrons of Wellington bombers whose navigators were trained as pathfinders an whose role it was to lead the squadrons over the target still carryin their own payload......
The weather forecast was that the evening wind direction would not unduly raise fires created by the phosphorous bombs dropped to light the way.
Over the target however the wind direction changed an in seconds a fire storm had been created.
Dresden was a very old city. Mostly old timber Fred buildings an no one could outrun the flames or even away from them, the city was a dry tinder box. 130, 000 people died the night of 14 th Feb 1945 an within a few days the final estimated loss of life was 400,000 . The outrage sent shock waves tjrouhout Europe an America
Feb 14th 1945 ..... valentines night. wuz the night that the western world would remember in all its horror an bomber Harris wuz castigated by peers an contempories as long as he lived as the one who burned a city of civilians to death whilst in their beds.
Jerry sank to his knees an wept openly an bitterly for the part he played in this slaughter of the innocents an so did many others as daylight dawned an the extent of human tragedy was becomin crystal clear. Jerry wuz never to 're over from the guilt - indeed very few ever did.
( mums father in law wuz a pathfinder an took part in the Dresden raid . ) He was just 24 years old at the time. Suffered nightmares and at his death asked for forgiveness an Jerry wuz already doin the same. That night Jerry wrote a letter to Sara and told her an Mac what had happened an another to his parents tellin them he no longer wanted what they all wanted for him not to marry his childhood friend.
Jerry posted the letters without reading them before he changed his mind an waited fer his world to be turned upside down....... cont.
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