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CHAPTER FIVE Weybridge was a busy place during the war years, Vickers Armstrong's Aircraft Company being in the vicinity, and providing employment for thousands of people. Each morning, around breakfast time, the avenue beneath our window was buzzing with motor cars, trucks and bicycles—all on their way to Vickers; but after an hour or so, the road was almost deserted again. Yes, we were continually reminded of the war. Of course Brooklands' race track, also in the Weybridge district, was known all over the world. For us it was a fairly quiet period in our lives for we did not lead much of a social life, having very few visitors. Carl was not fond of mixing with people, so his employer held this against him. If you want to succeed in business life, it seems you must smoke, drink and BE SOCIAL, whatever that means! A few of my acquaintances came to visit us ‘out in the sticks’ and I remember one in particular, a nurse who had but recently been married. She had flouted hospital regulations and married one of her patients in the hospital. Although her name escapes my memory, I have several reasons for remem- bering this young lady—not the least being that she was an excellent nurse, admired by staff and management alike. Her husband, prior to the marriage, had suffered a motor-cycle accident; thus he became a patient, having one leg amputated. During his illness and convalescence, no doubt partly due to the extreme care he enjoyed at her hands, he fell in love with his nurse. After his discharge from hospital, there were many escapades, after hours, and it was not long before wedding bells were ringing for nurse and patient. Around that particu- 26
lar time there was a film star who had suffered a leg amputa- tion, and therefore he had enlisted the use of an artificial limb. My nurse acquaintance and her husband spent many hours sitting in the cinema studying this actor's leg movements so they might learn whatever they could to make things easier for themselves. I was just going to comment that, were I endowed with an eidetic memory, I would give the actor's name. In the mean- time the electrical pulsations within my cranium slowly ‘creaked’, bringing to the surface the name of Herbert Mar- shall-a well-known and popular British actor of his day. Another person with whom we maintained contact was Dr. Murray, a pathologist, and whenever we found ourselves in his area we would go along to the hospital where he was employed and have a chat. Dr. Murray was a very clever man, an author of technical works, and a prospective candidate for Britain's parliament; but, since we did not approve of the party he represented, we were just as happy that he did not get suffici- ent votes. It would have been sad for a brilliant medical man to waste his time with politics, surely. Dr. Murray is no longer on the earth plane—but he is always remembered with affection. One does not enjoy being reminded of wars; and that being so, there is no pleasure in living close to an aircraft factory, which for some people creates an artificial glamour. Wages are high and the ordinary person, the so-called man-in-the-street, is able to live on a scale which would be unimaginable in peace time. As well as the Vickers Viscount planes, the Wellington Bomber (the Wimpey) was also produced by the Vickers Brookland factory. This was the first geodetic airplane ever made. Vickers also produced one of the first anti-sub radar planes (a Wimpey) which had on top a thing which looked like a flying saucer. The machine used to fly over the sea by night, when U-boats were on the surface recharging their batteries. They could spot the U-boats first and were then able to drop their depth charges. There is no pleasure in reliving the horrors of war with all 27
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Page 10 and 11: CHAPTER THREE It was interesting th
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Page 26 and 27: have heard the remark, ‘I feel cl
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Page 30 and 31: I do my thing And you do your thing
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Page 34 and 35: may be absorbed, thus providing the
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Page 44 and 45: happy moment the day an elderly man
Page 46 and 47: We are told we should not worry so
Page 48 and 49: CHAPTER TEN Since this narrative se
Page 50 and 51: ‘passed this way’ more than onc
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Page 54 and 55: CHAPTER ELEVEN There was one import
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Page 60 and 61: CHAPTER TWELVE We must remember tha
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Page 66 and 67: INTERLUDE Have you ever noticed how
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seemed imminent. If my complete fai
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So after a pleasant interlude along
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Our interlude over
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way than in his natural state. Whil
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I think that I will never see A Bil
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pation when he was first allowed to
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such a luxury even when the tempera
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Write without pay until somebody of
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have us as tenants, even going to t
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opportunity to save at all, but one
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CHAPTER SIX TEEN Thames Ditton must
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een slightly deaf because he used t
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If you don't know what you are look
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the pipes, and if we let through an
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him, she came trotting up the corri
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Taddy growls and hisses and puts on
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Soon breakfast was
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entertainment time when they race a
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cat food or the dog food, that alon
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some fish, it will have a craving f
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God grant me SERENITY to accept the
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to have only one Siamese cat—two
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When someone cares It is easier to
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ment, then let it be on themselves.
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Many people are not at all sure whe
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Now, you cat peo
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Unlike some people who, if on one o
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What made us friends in the long ag
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some kind. Dr. Dee was a very outsp
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Caption Says, ‘I WOULD VERY MUCH
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with a further comment, ‘You know
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Hold fast to dreams For if dreams d
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Lives will almost outweigh the inte
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now Canadian citizens—Her Graciou
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