ancientaviator,
Nice to know that I had fellow-sufferers! I suspect that this must have happened many a time. Of course, sometimes it must have been the other way round ! How else to account for some of the puzzling "London Gazette" entries on the six-monthly "Feasts of the Passover" ?
ricardian,
Thanks for the poem - I don't think I've ever heard that one before. Eric Sykes (died three years ago, RIP) will long be remembered for his stage partnership with Hattie Jacques, but I never knew he was such an accomplished rhymester.
Nice picture - it looks very like the jacket I was issued with in '41 (fits where it touches). But don't think collar & tie came out of Stores !
Another very powerful and moving WWII poem is Noel Coward's: "Lie in the Dark and Listen".
Cheers to you both, Danny.
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