____________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: 2/20/2012 3:50:14 P.M. Mountain Standard Time Subj: Memories - We, my husband & I have an excellent set of videos, probably now available on DVD, The Award Winning PBS Series on the History of the English Language "The Story of English". Those interested in dialects may find it interesting. Incidentally, my earliest memory is as a two year old. It was the day after Hitler bombed Nottingham - 1942. We lived in a Terrace house on Lowdham Street, Nottingham. The bottom half of the street was totally obliterated. My memory is of my mother giving me a kettle to hold so that we could queue for water. I was puzzled, why was everyone around me crying, everyone is so bad tempered and sad, who were the big men in coats (must have been fireman), where did the big pipes come from (must have been hoses - my mother had to lift me or better still drag me over them). So much water, my feet are wet. I look down, water is lapping over my shoes and I'm cold. Where was all the smoke coming from, what was that smell. And strangely enough, I can still close my eyes and see it all and yet it is all in "black & white" like in the movie Schlider's List! Carole Bell (Wakefield) Colorado. USA