What a splendid idea Maureen! I'm on the Far South Coast nr. Bega. I have friends in Brisbane and Adelaide. We might all have to meet in the middle at Ulluru. There must be more of us around. Kiwis welcome too of course!! A nice thought Maureen but probably not very practical in veiw of the vast distances in our country.Strictly speaking I'm not a scouser but my Mum was. I love the idea of the cushion over your heads to confuse the enemy bombers?!. Or was it to save a nasty bump on the head due to flying shrapnel?!! Our Anderson shelter was at the bottom of our garden. A deep hole in the ground with curved corrugated iron over it. We would stand in the back doorway waiting for a lull and my Mum to say "Run!!,NOW" She was worried about the canary in case of gas. She was told they hadn't got around to gas masks for canaries yet. My little brother's had a mickey mouse face. I was envious. Mine was just a plain boring black one. At school we had to wear our gasmasks for half an hour every day during lessons. To get us used to the idea I presume. Moving into the underground shelters on the school playing fields when the Air Raid warning sounded was a well rehearsed procedure. Monitors carried blankets and First Aid boxes etc while the rest of us took whatever was with us at the time to do with the lesson in progress. We always went in through the big doors but had to come out when the All Clear sounded by climbing up the iron ladder and squeezing through the escape hatch at the other end. There always seemed to be water slopping around under the duck boards. I wonder now how we ever managed to learn anything. Marged will be wondering if it was a good idea to revive all these old WW2 memories! I will write that book Marged but it definately won't be published!! Margaret

Margaret, I would like a copy, Please!! Ron Fitzpatrick. Adelaide South Australian Scouser. Ex Liverpool. ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 9:53 AM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] An Aussie/Scousers get together > What a splendid idea Maureen! I'm on the Far South Coast nr. Bega. I have > friends in Brisbane and Adelaide. We might all have to meet in the middle > at Ulluru. There must be more of us around. Kiwis welcome too of course!! > A nice thought Maureen but probably not very practical in veiw of the vast > distances in our country.Strictly speaking I'm not a scouser but my Mum > was. I love the idea of the cushion over your heads to confuse the enemy > bombers?!. Or was it to save a nasty bump on the head due to flying > shrapnel?!! Our Anderson shelter was at the bottom of our garden. A deep > hole in the ground with curved corrugated iron over it. We would stand in > the back doorway waiting for a lull and my Mum to say "Run!!,NOW" > She was worried about the canary in case of gas. She was told they hadn't > got around to gas masks for canaries yet. My little brother's had a mickey > mouse face. I was envious. Mine was just a plain boring black one. At > school we had to wear our gasmasks for half an hour every day during > lessons. To get us used to the idea I presume. Moving into the underground > shelters on the school playing fields when the Air Raid warning sounded > was a well rehearsed procedure. Monitors carried blankets and First Aid > boxes etc while the rest of us took whatever was with us at the time to do > with the lesson in progress. We always went in through the big doors but > had to come out when the All Clear sounded by climbing up the iron ladder > and squeezing through the escape hatch at the other end. There always > seemed to be water slopping around under the duck boards. I wonder now how > we ever managed to learn anything. > Marged will be wondering if it was a good idea to revive all these old WW2 > memories! I will write that book Marged but it definately won't be > published!! Margaret > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >