Danny42C -
(it come t' pieces in me 'and, Mum) !
now there's a little quip or bon mot from way way back.
it goes hand in hand with her ladyship pointing out to a maid
how dusty the piano was - "Emily . . . I could write my name
right here. ." . . . . "Oh ma'am . . . ain't it wunnerful to be
so edic-ated!"
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. . . can't tell you what this has to do with the price of fish .. . but . . .
Old mate Ted Sly ('The Luck of the Draw') with a stream of RAAF
war stories to rival our Danny used to say to any visitor leaving his home in
Byron Bay . . . .. "Remember . . . . fly high. . . and you'll live a long time"
. . . . and of course, as mentioned here before. . . Harry Purvis (also
in the air force for the war years) . .. . after every landing just about he'd turn round and say…
or just murmur to himself . . .. "got away with it again "
Somewhere there's a 1942 photo of Harry standing in front of a Beaufort with the
undercart torn off after a tricky landing at Bachelor in the Northern Territory.
Harry has his arms outstretched wide with a bemused look on his good-looking prize fighter's dial ..
supposedly declaiming
ALONE I DID IT!