Evacuate your children

I intend to write ten books, at the moment I have just started number nine. All are different except the Evergreen Series and this one will be different again. It concerns a service family in the Second World War and the predicaments faced because of the war. During the war itself I was too young to know what was going on but within twenty years of it I was married to a serviceman and living in Germany. We loved it and found that the ordinary German people friendly, welcoming not as we were led to believe during the hostilities.

 In fact we made many friends by the simple expedient of walking into a shop and asking in our English German what an item was called. If they replied in English and lots of them spoke it we would say “How about coming round to our house and teach us German?” This way we found out a lot about how they suffered from their own side and what it was like to live under Hitler’s regime.  Of course it helps enormously in writing this book as I am able to give life to both sides of the war. I have only just started and have much research to do to get it right but I will keep you posted as it develops.

A dog's plea

The other day while searching for a lost receipt I came across this and I thought I would share it with you.

A Dogs Plea

Treat me kindly dear friend for no heart in all the world is more grateful for kindness than the loving heart of mine. Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I should lick you between blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me learn. Speak to me often for your voice is the world’s sweetest music, as you know by the fierce wagging of my tail when your foot steps fall upon my waiting ears.

Please take me inside when it is wet for I am a domesticated animal, no longer accustomed to the bitter elements. I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth. Keep my dish filled with fresh water, for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst. Feed me with fresh food that I may stay well to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side and stand ready to protect you with my life should your life be in danger. When I am old and no longer enjoy good health, hearing and sight, do not make heroic efforts to keep me going, I shall not enjoy myself. Please see that my life is taken gently.

I shall leave this earth knowing with the last breath, that my life was safest in your hands.