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the safest place in the house. We make ourselves comfortable in armchairs with
rugs etc around us & patiently await our release. I usually sleep
As we have
thick linen blinds. and heavy curtains on
all our windows which, I believe, would
stop the crashing of glass from a bomb
burst. our panes being small and not
filled with heavy plate glass. I have not gone
to the great expense of providing wooden
shutters to the windows. Some people
have covered the plate glass of their windows
with strips of paper, others have covered
them with a thin sort of muslin net, pasted
on, while others coat the glass with a
varnish preparation, I have treated
our stair window in this fashion as it is
above our retreat. To facilitate the
handling of any explosive bomb that
might penetrate the roof. I have had to
remove the accummulation of travelling
boxes, pictures, and general miscellaneous
rubbish from there, and pile it up at the
back of the garage. There are buckets of
sand and water at various places
in the house, also a shovel into which
the yet unexploded incendiary bomb
is to be coaxed by the aid of a garden
rake! In accordance with instructions

the bath throughout the day stands half full
of water in case a water main is severed by
an explosive bomb. Our comparative free:
:dom from raids may be due to the whole-
-some dread of the Forth area inspired in
the Nazi airmen by our fighters. One young
prisoner confessed that it was known as
the Suicide “ Allee” among them.
Daily our airmen are taking a heavy
toll of the enemy in the south. During the
last week at least 40 Nazi planes
have been accounted for in contrast to a
small number of our own – probably not
a dozen – While this evening’s news at 6. o’clock
told of a great fight in the South of England
when a surprise attack was attempted on a
port and the enemy lost 15 planes at least
to our one! We are living under the
threat of invasion, and though we have
expected it for the last week or two none has
so far been attempted. Meantime our
defences grow stronger. All flat fields
in which an aeroplane could land and
leave troops have their surfaces obstructed
with poles and other impediments, and
block houses of brick, loop holed for guns,
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