Hi all, will try a little bit more of my evacuation days, as you will appreciated I cannot give a day by day occurence of events so will give thoughts as they come into my memory.
School days were by half days, villagers in the morning and evacuees in the afternoon or vice versa, obviously we youngsters loved it this way, were taught a little welsh and also how to knit, I started to do a scarf but never did finish it, tried hard on the welsh but could only count to ten, the days were beautiful bright and sunny, there was a stream in the field across from the cottage which we used to jump but of course I did not jump far enough one day and landed in the middle, soaked to my waist and dared not to go home until I was dried out, another time a local asked me if I would like to help putting the Sheep into their nightly sleeping quarters, just got them all in when one decided he didn't like me and charged, you could not see my backside for dust, never again, me and sheep did not get on, the next episode involving animals, in fact there were three, I came home to be greet by Mrs Roberts at the door and asking why I had been chasing the cows in the upper field, I protested my innocence, I really had not been chasing any cows but she insisted that I had been seen and that she would informing Mr Jones, now Mr Jones, it seems, was one very important person in the village, owning many shops and a coal merchant and a Farm, as I was still protesting my innocence and crying my eyes out, who should come knocking on the door but the very man himself, I hid somewhere in the cottage and listened out for Mrs Roberts to tell him that it was I that had been chasing the cattle, I was so surprised when she said nothing about the incident, when she came inside and shut the door I asked why she had not mentioned it, I will if I hear of it again, I still pleaded innocent but she still did not believe me, the other animal incident happened one evening and some friends of the Roberts came visiting, they happened to mention that there little dog was in the car before anyone could stop me I was out the door opened that car door and reached for the dog, I loved animals, I was soon to regret my actions, the dog snapped at my face and I screamed and wailed thinking that the dog had bitten my face, they managed to calm me down and looked at my face and assured me that the dog had not bitten me, since then I have been very wary of dogs although I still loved them.
Another day we watched a man putting wire traps outside rabbit holes so we decided that we would take a couple of these noose wire traps and put them outside holes that we thought had rabbits in them, unfortunately for us a village lad a little older than us saw us and said if I didn't give him this toy gun that I had he would tell on us, the toy gun was a present my brother had sent, it was one where you could put paper in it and when the trigger was pulled it made a noise, it also had a hole in the front so you could press a potatoe in and the bit left in would shoot out when fired, when I got back to the cottage Mrs Roberts asked where my gun was so this time I really had to tell a lie and said I must have left it in the field when playing, she sent me back to find it but obviously I could not and went back and told her that, again she did not believe me but said nothing.
More next time folks
Brookieboy