The journal of a Yorkshire lad from the age of 17 in 1973 through several decades .... Transcribing from handwritten volume to blog may take some time ...
Showing posts with label armistice day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label armistice day. Show all posts
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Thursday November 11, 1976
VERY FOGGY. It makes a change anyway. Lynne comes up for tea and we watch 'Top of the Pops' with Mama. Dad is snoring his head off in the background.
Photos came back today of baby JPH when he was three weeks old.
Do I have to mention the fact that it's Armistice Day? Poppies and all that? I think you've heard enough about this down the years without me harping on about the Somme and Great-Uncle Hubert giving his life, &c &c.
[Great-Uncle Hubert is of course a figment of my imagination].
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