Keep calm and carry on

[lizbee]

I'm reading Blackout, right? It's set mostly in and around the Blitz, with an excursion to Dunkirk.  (The London Blitz, that is -- turns out it was a nationwide craze, which is one of those things no one ever bothers to tell you in eleventh grade modern history.  Although, despite what Wikipedia claims, I'm pretty sure the Cardiff Blitz took place entirely in Jack Harkness's pants.)

And while I've been reading, the F1 Grand Prix has been taking place literally across the road. So while I read tales of rockets and shelters and air raid sirens and incendiaries, I've been serenaded by the sounds of racing cars and low-flying aircraft.  (And, in the last quarter of an hour, a very loud rendition of "God Save the Queen".  Either an English team won, or we've been invaded again.)

In short, if anyone needs us, the cat and I will be setting up an Anderson shelter in the car space.

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[thedivinegoat]

Bristol was really badly hit in the blitz, (due to having docks and an aircraft industry), and there was a lot of bad feeling that whilst London was in the news and got praised for soldiering on, Brstol got ignored, and during the one unoffical visit that Churchill Bothered to make, he got harrassed by pissed off Bristolians.

Huge parts of the city centre were demolished, one of the most iconic being The Dutch House. (What it looked like before the bomb.)

You possibly didn't want to know all that. ;-)

(Also, Go! Jensen!)

[lizbee]

That's quite interesting. And it's typical that London gets all the attention -- like how, growing up, no one ever talked about the Japanese bombings of Darwin.