the fourth of June

i replaced the dark and brooding pic of yesterday, with something a bit brighter.

we're coming up to D-Day.  70 years ago many of our forces were waiting on this bit of the UK coast to go off to Normandy.  these cliffs had pillboxes dotted all along and a mass of barbed wire everywhere.....the house i'm blipping from was commandeered by the army.  my father was stationed locally and took part in the Normandy landings.  he was wounded and nearly lost a leg and an arm, and would have done were it not for the new wonder drug, penicillin.