Do you still wear a mask?

I wear a mask. It is not for Covid pandemic reasons. It is because I am an ugly bustard.

I’d heard.

I carry a mask at all times and there’s some in the car. Only time I wear one is when I visit my mother in the care home. She’s 103 you know.

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I’d heard.

I carry a mask at all times and there’s some in the car. Only time I wear one is when I visit my mother in the care home. She’s 103 you know.

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That is one hell of an innings Griff.

Born in 1919?

Aged 20 when WW2 started!

She must have some incredible memories.

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I’d heard.

I carry a mask at all times and there’s some in the car. Only time I wear one is when I visit my mother in the care home. She’s 103 you know.

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Brilliant!

She’ll be 104 later this month. She has great memories of her younger life, not so much recently. She worked on the airfields at Brayton (Aspatria) and Kirkbride shunting aircraft around and driving pilots to their digs. My dad was mending or settings up instruments and often had to go up with a pilot to do so.

Family history has it that they met sheltering from the sun under the wing of a Flying Fortress but that has to be baloney. I mean, sun in Cumberland?

Wow that’s fantastic Griff & appreciate why you do. Our Doctors & Dentist still insist on one if not exempt but apart from that no..

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She’ll be 104 later this month. She has great memories of her younger life, not so much recently. She worked on the airfields at Brayton (Aspatria) and Kirkbride shunting aircraft around and driving pilots to their digs. My dad was mending or settings up instruments and often had to go up with a pilot to do so.

Family history has it that they met sheltering from the sun under the wing of a Flying Fortress but that has to be baloney. I mean, sun in Cumberland?

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The WW1 Armistice was signed on November 11th 1918. Although this in reality was the end of the war it was officially only a 'cease fire'. The official end of WW1 was when The Treaty Of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919. So presumably she was alive for the last 4½ months of the actual war (Armistice, November 11th 1918) and she was a year old at the time of the official formal end of the war (Treaty Of Versailles, June 28th 1919).

Yeah, two of her uncles died in that lot, before she was born. One has a grave, the other a name on a memorial. Later she lost a brother who had fought his way across North Africa and died in Italy, crossing the Sangro river. We all visited his grave about 30 years ago. Lovely spot, nicely and respectfully kept by the Italians though there were too many snakes around for my liking.

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