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Oh, happy, happy, happy Parents! Two sons this month. The owners of one are the Wyborns. Their son was 8 pounds 14 ounces when born and can already do simple quadratic equations. Peter John walked in on the Harpers almost at the same time as the domestic staff at the hospital walked out for their VP Day celebrations. I did not hear whether Peter John turned to and scrubbed a few floors. | Oh, happy, happy, happy Parents! Two sons this month. The owners of one are the Wyborns. Their son was 8 pounds 14 ounces when born and can already do simple quadratic equations. Peter John walked in on the Harpers almost at the same time as the domestic staff at the hospital walked out for their VP Day celebrations. I did not hear whether Peter John turned to and scrubbed a few floors. | ||
- | After VP Day Russell Wilkins appeared at the Club wearing a white polo sweater which crowded around his throat in a thick ruffle which would have done credit to Queen Elizabeth; This went, naturally, with an air-force uniform. Apparently some WAAAFS were so eager to get at him that they tore the front out of his shirt. Russell says the reason was VP celebrations. | + | After VP Day Russell Wilkins appeared at the Club wearing a white polo sweater which crowded around his throat in a thick ruffle which would have done credit to Queen Elizabeth. This went, naturally, with an air-force uniform. Apparently some WAAAFS were so eager to get at him that they tore the front out of his shirt. Russell says the reason was VP celebrations. |
- | News h-s been received that Mouldy Harrison travelled from New York to Halifax2 | + | |
- | Did you hear about the little boy whose teacher told him that "to be frugal" | + | News has been received that Mouldy Harrison travelled from New York to Halifax, |
- | One of the new girls in the Club is most anxious to acquire a tent of any size or description. So if you have a tent which is just mouldering away with die-use think of the pleasure you could give one person eager to walk and camp, by striking a bargain. See th Editor who demands only a modest 50% commission. | + | |
- | HAVE YOU MADE EVERY ENDEAVOUR TO FIND A SUITABLE | + | Did you hear about the little boy whose teacher told him that "to be frugal" |
- | ROOM OR Rat FOR THE CLUBS USE ? SEE STOP PRESS - PAGE 6. | + | |
- | ov. | + | One of the new girls in the Club is most anxious to acquire a tent of any size or description. So if you have a tent which is just mouldering away with dis-use think of the pleasure you could give one person eager to walk and camp, by striking a bargain. See the Editor who demands only a modest 50% commission. |
- | INTERLUDE IN SICILY' | + | |
+ | HAVE YOU MADE EVERY ENDEAVOUR TO FIND A SUITABLE ROOM OR HALL FOR THE CLUB' | ||
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+ | ====INTERLUDE IN SICILY==== | ||
by DOREEN HELMRICH. | by DOREEN HELMRICH. | ||
- | Memories of Sicily - 1939 - are crowding into my mind. Sicily with its clamorous cities and stone villages; | + | |
- | Vivid memories of Palermo, the capital, are of the clamour of small 'boys shouting in sheer exuberance, of carved and decorated yellow wooden carts, drawn by the most diminutive of mules bedecked with rows of shining silver bells jinglinhat | + | Memories of Sicily - 1939 - are crowding into my mind. Sicily with its clamorous cities and stone villages; |
- | Behind these market streets ran the streets of the peoples/ dwelling places-chill, | + | |
- | OppresEed | + | Vivid memories of Palermo, the capital, are of the clamour of small boys shouting in sheer exuberance, of carved and decorated yellow wooden carts, drawn by the most diminutive of mules bedecked with rows of shining silver bells jingling at every movement; of narrow back streets, winding and flagged where people swarmed like ants, and children flocked in thousands but were very gay; where stalls displayed every imaginable food stuff, including quite alarming looking fish and strange varieties of breads. |
- | the fields, donkeys. sc-rcely | + | |
- | After hours of struggling our train limped into Caltanisetta railway junction, where we got out and waited, Up in the distant hills there was a smear of yellow"- the ancient sulphur mines; While we waited the peasants gathered round as they always did and we held many pleasant conversations in execrable French, our only common language. | + | Behind these market streets ran the streets of the peoples' |
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+ | After hours of struggling our train limped into Caltanisetta railway junction, where we got out and waited. Up in the distant hills there was a smear of yellow - the ancient sulphur mines. While we waited the peasants gathered round as they always did and we held many pleasant conversations in execrable French, our only common language. | ||
They all seemed to have relatives in Australia, and knew about our wonderful surfing beaches. | They all seemed to have relatives in Australia, and knew about our wonderful surfing beaches. | ||
- | Eventually another train arrived and we chugged further up the mountain and so to G' | ||
- | Girgento is built on the heights 1000 feet above the Mediterranean | ||
- | and as we sat on the Terrace of our Inn looking down over the beautiful ruins of the six Greek Temples, over the Olive groves below to the blue-green sea we tried to reconstruct some of the tempetuous pastllittle dreaming that our own people would be the next invaders, | ||
- | Our host at the Inn owned a villa on the coast at Port Empedocle, so gave us our lunch and the key and insisted that we should go down for a picnic and swim. It was a delightful little villa gaily painted and decorative with its bright Sicilian rugs, pottery and paintedefurniture. The sun was all that a Mediterranean sun should be, but the sand was dull and the water still' | ||
- | C. | + | Eventually another train arrived and we chugged further up the mountain and so to Girgento, steeped in memories of the past. All Sicily bears the imprint of the dozen civilisations that have flourished there since the dawn of history - Phoenician, Greek, Carthaginian, |
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- | On the road back to Girgento we ::ret peasant b returning from their day's work in the fields, one little boy carelessly dangling in his hand a Roman terra cotta vase which he had just come upon ao he dug. These people have(to us) quite priceless treasures in their homes, They are likely to find them just any time i the fields | + | Girgento is built on the heights 1000 feet above the Mediterranean and as we sat on the Terrace of our Inn looking down over the beautiful ruins of the six Greek Temples, over the Olive groves below to the blue-green sea we tried to reconstruct some of the tempetuous past, little dreaming that our own people would be the next invaders. |
- | The journey onwards to the East Cohst took another whole day in the leisurely train. We uied to spend five minutes at each station, and carriages were always being added or subtratted ,-;,but no one felt any need to hurry. Suddenly over the green hills, a daz7linglehimmering | + | |
- | cried, pointing excitedly.. Gradually we came down from the mountains to the | + | Our host at the Inn owned a villa on the coast at Port Empedocle, so gave us our lunch and the key and insisted that we should go down for a picnic and swim. It was a delightful little villa gaily painted and decorative with its bright Sicilian rugs, pottery and painted furniture. The sun was all that a Mediterranean sun should be, but the sand was dull and the water still and shallow for so far that we gave up in despair. |
- | Plains of Catania, and turned North, with Etna 10,000 feet high on our leftt and the Mediterranean calm and untroubled as ever on our right, The long curving | + | |
- | Taormina, another picturesque little town perched on the heights was our destination, | + | On the road back to Girgento we met peasants |
- | most interesting | + | |
- | miniature main street was decrepit but very amusing. The beds rocked like ships in storm and the floor tiles rattled when we walked. It took three days to get a hot bath, but the avant was so cerqmonious, necessitating as it did the escort of two maids and the handing over of three enormous bath towels, that it almost seemed worth the 1/9 it cost. The geography of the building eluded us and we never did discover its full extent, but we did find three wings opening to three different streets; two gardens with ponds and birds, | + | The journey onwards to the East Coast took another whole day in the leisurely train. We used to spend five minutes at each station, and carriages were always being added or subtracted |
+ | cried, pointing excitedly. Gradually we came down from the mountains to the Plains of Catania, and turned North, with Etna 10,000 feet high on our left, and the Mediterranean calm and untroubled as ever on our right. The long curving | ||
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+ | Taormina, another picturesque little town perched on the heights was our destination, | ||
As we were sitting at the street tables of our palatial residence the waiter came out and said something which was translated for us "The Italians took over Albania today. King Zog invited us to occupy it." | As we were sitting at the street tables of our palatial residence the waiter came out and said something which was translated for us "The Italians took over Albania today. King Zog invited us to occupy it." | ||
- | This important announcement, | + | |
- | Ester ,Saturdny howf-,wer wae .Piesta lay, so tnti smtll boys had thAr pro-ces' | + | This important announcement, |
- | At night there was a Grand Ball at every restaurant, | + | |
- | The "Taverne | + | Easter Saturday however was a Fiesta Day so the small boys had their procession, |
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- | 0 | + | At night there was a Grand Ball at every restaurant. |
- | taken thre, It w-!s a large, grey rough w-, | + | |
- | lights in pirate lanterns, and barrels and bottles hanging from the roof. | + | The "Taverna" |
- | A brightly costumed orchestra played gloriously from a cave in the wall | + | |
- | to the thronging crowd seen dimly through tobacco smoke, The tiled dancing floor centre, seemed as lorge as a family dining table, and the | + | Fashioned into a hillside, the Greek Theatre stands on the out-skirts of the town. From the rising Auditorium the audience looks down through the arches behind the stage to the beaches and the Coastal villages hundreds of feet below. Built in golden stone it has stood for 2500 years and we thought of the drama enacted on its stage and in the lives of the people through all those centuries. |
- | of carnival flourished. Waiters flew in all directions carrying delicious wines and every little while one of the orchestra turned soloist - the violoniet | + | |
- | Fashioned into a hillside, the Greek Theatre stands on the out- | + | A very short journey along the coast brought us to Messina, |
- | skirts of the town.. From the rising Auditorium the audience looks down through the arches behind the stage to the beaches and the Coastal villages | + | |
- | hundreds of feet below, Built in golden stone it has stood for 2500 years | + | The Sicilians |
- | and we thought of the drama enacted on its stage and in the lives of the people through all those centuries, | + | |
- | A very short journey along the coast brought us to Messina, | + | Ancient, |
- | Straits of Messina to the :Italian mainland. | + | |
- | The Sicilians | + | ----FOOD LISTS---- |
- | moment of supreme content. | + | |
- | Ancient, | + | |
- | FOOD LISTS | + | |
Nightmare horrors food lists cause. Immutable as holy laws - | Nightmare horrors food lists cause. Immutable as holy laws - | ||
Juggling pounds and pennyweights, | Juggling pounds and pennyweights, |
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