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New Zealand Covid-19
Affordable housing wait lists still growing in Queenstown and Wanaka
11:26 am on 25 November 2020
The waiting list for assistance from the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust is continuing to grow despite Covid-19 finally bringing rocketing rental prices back to earth.
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult says council is committed to addressing housing affordability where it could and that included supporting the work of the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust. Photo: Crux Ltd
A year ago the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust had some good news - its waiting list was finally decreasing after climbing to over 600 families in need of affordable housing.
Before Covid-19, the waiting list was holding steady at 591 households.
But over the past nine months its been climbing again and now sits at over 630 households.
That was despite a drop in rent prices, the trust's executive officer Julie Scott said.
"Whilst that's great for a number of households on our waiting list having rents come down, there's still a huge number of households throughout the district who have experienced severe loss of income - either through complete loss of income or reduced [income] and that might be one person in the household or two," Scott said.
"So I think because of that we've seen a number of new households come on to our waiting list."
While rents had come back, they still sat above $600 per week for a three-bedroom home and despite predictions about what the pandemic would mean for property prices, the median sales price for Queenstown-Lakes was still over a million dollars last month.
When combined with the reality that the number of beneficiaries tripled in the district in the past year, it painted a dire picture of how many were struggling in the community, Happiness House manager Robyn Francis said.
"It's still evolving, the repercussions of Covid are still having an impact and each week we are seeing new people and different people coming in for support and some people are in really extreme situations," she said.
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult said as a result of the work of the council and the community the worst case scenario of Covid-19's effects had not played out in the community, but the housing situation remained tough.
"We still remain an attractive place to live, it's still a wonderfully beautiful place and so those that can find a job here are continuing to come here and remain here," he said.
"If anything wages have dropped and the pressure is still on housing."
The council remained committed to addressing housing affordability where it could and that included supporting the work of the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust, but support and real change needed to come from central government, he said.
"I still see this as a central government issue. Our council have taken the view that if we don't do something about it then no-one will, but right across New Zealand it remains one of the major issues facing our country and it's getting worse because house prices are increasing. Somewhere along the way we'll have to find a fix for this."
The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust has secured 50 high-density apartments in Frankton and construction is underway on six homes in Wānaka.
Dozens more sections are planned in Lake Hayes and Arrowtown.
Scott said the trust had about 300 properties in its pipeline, which would bring some relief to the waiting list.
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Re: Post something you've learnt today
Postby yomptepi » 05 Nov 2021, 17:19
Six String wrote: :o
I'd do it.
You don't like me...do you?
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Postby Matt Wilson » 05 Nov 2021, 17:40
Independence from Britain is celebrated somewhere in the world, on average, one in every seven days. A total of 65 countries have claimed their independence.
Any more of this insolence and you will be given a warning. I've had it up to here with you lately. Don't push your luck.
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mudshark
Postby mudshark » 06 Nov 2021, 17:29
Soon the 66th will be celebrated all over Scotland.
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over
I found out that today the number of COVID infections in the Netherlands is 12,049, which is the most this since December 2020. And that with 80% of the adult population fully vaccinated. I've been boosted and booked to fly home next Thursday and stick around for a couple of weeks. Also found out I didn't have the guts and decided to remain in spacious Texas.
Postby C » 06 Nov 2021, 18:15
mudshark wrote: Soon the 66th will be celebrated all over Scotland.
Doubtful...
Although it depends on your definition of 'soon' - it's all relative
C wrote: Just blank the fucque-wit
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Postby GoogaMooga » 08 Nov 2021, 18:07
Frequent ejaculation reduces the risk of cancer.
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck
Postby Minnie Cheddars » 14 Nov 2021, 19:21
This seems unpleasantly biblical
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Postby Flower » 15 Nov 2021, 12:58
Mantan's biographer, Michael Price, states Moreland was briefly considered as a possible addition to the Three Stooges. After Shemp Howard died of a sudden heart attack on November 22, 1955, at age 60, Moe Howard was said had been observing Moreland's act for years and offered Moreland a chance to join the act as the new "third stooge" at the behest of his late brother Shemp. Moreland was reported to be enthusiastic about the offer, but Columbia Pictures insisted on a comedian already under contract. Joe Besser, one of a few comedians still making comedy shorts at the studio, was eventually recruited to join the act in 1956
Mantan Moreland would've been great as one of the Three Stooges. Saw "King of the Zombies" a few months ago and he was great as was Marguerite Whitten.
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Postby The Prof » 15 Nov 2021, 13:20
Just seen part of a local newspaper headline that read,..
"Furious Mum, 37"
..and I thought it would be a great name for a band. That's all.
Six String
Postby Six String » 15 Nov 2021, 16:24
Minnie Cheddars wrote: This seems unpleasantly biblical
The combination of rain and dust storms would be enough for me. Fat tailed scorpions?
Everything is broken
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Postby pcqgod » 15 Nov 2021, 18:43
Yahweh still mad at the Pharoah? But seriously, that sounds awful. Locally we had an invasion of homes by Japanese Lady Beetles, which are cute and harmless.
Where would rock 'n' roll be without feedback?
pcqgod wrote:
Locally we had an invasion of homes by Japanese Lady Beetles, which are cute and harmless.
That's not what Paul, George and Ringo thought!
Postby Charlie O. » 15 Nov 2021, 19:36
I just learned that Dave of Dave & Ansell Collins was actually named Dave Barker (né Crooks). I'd always assumed he was Dave Collins, brother of Ansell.
Nottingham was originally named Stotingaham, after a Saxon chieftain named Snot (or Snod).
Postby mudshark » 08 Dec 2021, 19:05
Is it Snotingham or Stot (or Stod)?
I learnt it from QI, and checked it on Wikipedia - Snotingaham, after Snot, according to them. (Otherwise it presumably would have ended up being called Tottingham or Stottingham rather than Nottingham.)
"Brass Monkey" by the Beastie Boys sounds best if you read the lyrics in the voice of Jimmy Savile.
Postby Six String » 10 Dec 2021, 15:45
Minnie Cheddars wrote: "Brass Monkey" by the Beastie Boys sounds best if you read the lyrics in the voice of Jimmy Savile.
Post a video of you doing it.
My dentist told me about his rock and roll days which are amazing. He was in Hollywood/Sunset Strip in 65 and 66 and saw all the bands including Buffalo Springfield at the Whiskey A Go Go. Moved back to Sacramento in 67 to continue his education at UC Davis where he organized rock shows. He got the Grass Roots for $800 for two forty minute sets. When he wanted to bring them back his LA connection offered him an unknown band for $1200 and said they were going to be big They have a single coming called Light My Fire and it's going to be huge! Greg decided to go with the band he knew he could sell tickets for instead of the Doors ("what a dumb name").
He managed the Oxford Circle which morphed into Blue Cher of course and he saw all the SF bands as they were exploding including the Dead, Airplane etc.
He was best friends with Ethan Russell, met him while they were both students in Davis. Ethan shot the Who's Next Cover, Let It Be and some Stones.
What a life!

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Bradley Beal: Lakers Fans Made it 'Feel Like We Were on the Road'
by Marcel Mutoni February 03, 2017
The Washington Wizards notched their 16th consecutive home win Thursday night, but Laker Nation made Bradley Beal feel like he was playing a road game.
The Wizards' shooting guard says he is "sick" of Laker fans taking over the gym in D.C.
Bradley Beal: Lakers fans made it feel like #Wizards 'were on the road' Thursday https://t.co/QZC6onzdm3
— Candace Buckner (@CandaceDBuckner) February 3, 2017
Last season, fans were chanting Kobe Bryant's name in Washington shortly after he announced his retirement.
Per the WaPo:
When asked if John Wall's fourth-quarter takeover (16 points, including eight straight) was spurred by opposing fans who loudly cheered on their Lakers, Beal did not hold back.
"I'm sick of that, too," Beal said. "That's terrible. I feel like we were on the road today."
Wall admitted he wasn't pleased with the presence of Lakers fans — "No, I wasn't" — but understood why the franchise still attracts so many fans. […] "Our fans were still here, you heard some boos when they were doing that," Wall said. "But you know, the Lakers are a big-time organization that have won a lot of championships. They have a fan base kind of like the Celtics. They have one of those fan bases, one of those legendary teams, so we understand it. We dealt with it before when Kobe was playing but I'm glad that we have a winning streak here. Our fans have been amazing and they cheer for us when they needed us the most."
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On second Mondays monthly -- excepting semester and summer breaks -- a Liberal Arts professor/instructor from the UW-Madison or Madison College will explore issues or topics and invite Q&A. See posters in our archive for descriptions of previous lectures. _____________________________________
Topic: Press Play: Using Games and Simulations for Social Change
Lecturer: Jim Mathews
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Awareness and empathy
Fascination with local history or ecology
Skills and activity on behalf of local and global issues.
Jim will unpack the learning science of game-design and share examples of games crafted to motivate exploration of a wide range of topics including history, literature, death and ethics.
Through his work at UW-Madison's Field Day Lab and Clark Street Community School, Jim designs and researches digital media and learning experiences aimed at connecting youth and adults with local people, places and issues.
Here is a link to a New York Times article on the game "Peacemaker" -- followed by its first three paragraphs, but, following that, do not miss the link to an NPR audio on Virtual Reality.
LAST week, in an effort to solve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, I withdrew settlements in the Gaza Strip. But then a suicide bomber struck in Jerusalem, the P.L.O. leader called my actions "condescending," and the Knesset demanded a stern response. Desperate to retain control, I launched a missile strike against Hamas militants.
I was playing Peacemaker, a video game in which players assume the role of either the Israeli prime minister or the Palestinian president. Will you pull down the containment wall? Will you beg the United States to pressure your enemy? You make the calls and live with the results the computer generates. Just as in real life, actions that please one side tend to anger the other, making a resolution fiendishly tricky. You can play it over again and again until you get it right, or until the entire region explodes in violence.
"When they hear about Peacemaker, people sometimes go, 'What? A computer game about the Middle East?' " admits Asi Burak, the Israeli-born graduate student who developed it with a team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "But people get very engaged. They really try very hard to get a solution. Even after one hour or two hours, they'd come to me and say, you know, I know more about the conflict than when I've read newspapers for 10 years."
Also go to this NPR link for an interview transcript and its compelling 8 minute audio on the potential of developing both negative and positive traits -- like empathy -- through VIRTUAL REALITY
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Greg Stanton, and his wife Nicole France Stanton, celebrate Stanton's victory in the Phoenix mayoral election.
Tuesday was election day and Phoenix elected a new mayor. Greg Stanton, a former Phoenix city councilman and former Deputy Attorney General, handily beat Wes Gullett, a former lobbyist with a long history as a Republican political operative.
In Mesa, long serving Senate President Russell Pearce was recalled, losing to Jerry Lewis, also a conservative Republican. Pearce was the author of SB 1070, one of the toughest anti-illegal immigration laws in the country, and other anti-immigration efforts. He sponsored numerous bills to loosen Arizona's minimal gun control laws and tax cutting legislation. He was a darling of the Tea Party and one of the most conservative people in a very conservative state senate. Lewis' campaign was built around one simple issue: he wasn't Russell Pearce. He is in step with Pearce on many issues, but this race revolved around personality and Lewis was the winner.


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2015 Performer – Alvvays
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Alvvays are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle. Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan grew up as next-door neighbours in Cape Breton, lifting fiddles and folk-songs. Heartbreaks of different shades soon entered their lives, as did the music of Teenage Fanclub and Belle & Sebastian. Similar noisy melancholy drifted over to Prince Edward Island, finding Alec O'Hanley, Brian Murphy and Philip MacIsaac. Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn, when stars were appearing or fading off. As a result, their debut self-titled album is both sun-splashed and twilit—nine songs concealing drunkenness, defeat and death in tungsten-tinted pop that glitters like sea glass. With needlepoint melody and verse, Rankin and O'Hanley's songs were recorded at Chad VanGaalen's Yoko Eno studio and mixed by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) and John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile). The resultant album is loud and clear and sure. Flood your ears. The self-titled record was released on July 22nd on Royal Mountain Records in Canada, Polyvinyl Records in the USA and Transgressive Records in Europe. The Toronto quintet's melancholy surf-pop has prompted high praise from major press outlets like Rolling Stone and NPR as well as tastemaker blogs like Pitchfork, Brooklyn Vegan and Stereogum.
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Duterte greenlights Sangley Airport project
Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 01 2020 01:00 PM | Updated as of Sep 01 2020 01:59 PM
An artist's rendition of the proposed Sangley Point International Airport. Handout
MANILA-- President Rodrigo Duterte has greenlighted the Sangley Airport project in Cavite, Malacañang said Tuesday as it noted that the government's priority is to finish all major infrastructure programs before the chief executive steps down in 2022.
Duterte gave the go signal for the airport project even after its foreign contractor--China Communications Construction Co (CCCC)--was reported to have been blacklisted by the United States.
"The Sangley project will push through," Duterte's spokesperson Harry Roque said during a Palace press briefing.
"Malinaw po ang sinabi ni Presidente. Hindi siya susunod sa direktiba ng mga Amerikano dahil tayo po ay malaya at independienteng bansa at kinakailangan po natin ang mga namumuhunan galing sa bansang Tsina," he added.
(The President was clear: he will not follow the directives of the Americans because we are a free and independent nation, and we need investors from China.)
Last Aug. 28, the United States blacklisted several Chinese firms--including the CCCC--over its alleged role in building artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea.
The CCCC, operated by the Chinese government, and tycoon Lucio Tan's MacroAsia bagged the Sangley Point International Airport project in 2019.
MacroAsia had said that it would wait for the instructions of the Duterte administration on the project.
Sangley Airport final 'go signal' up to national government: MacroAsia
The $10 billion project, which involves land reclamation and expansion of an existing airport, is part of the government's infrastructure overhaul.
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Tracey Thompson, Kaytech's Head of Enterprise Development, offers some insight into the positive transformations that have taken place at Kaytech and what this means for the business.
What changes has Kaytech implemented in order to achieve this status?
Greater emphasis has been placed on Skills Development: Althought Kaytech has always been committed to skills development and training of our own employees, over the past two years we have pushed ourselves to take more accountability for unemployment in the country and strive to play a part in the creation of jobs (however small our impact). In line with this goal, we have implemented nine unemployed learnerships and offered two engineering bursaries over this time period.
How have these changes impacted the business?
Skills: Skills programmes for the unemployed not only boost the education and employability of the learners but also strengthen the skills pool from which Kaytech ultimately employs. This process aims to promote a meaningful employer-employee relationship.
What does this new BBBEE status mean for Kaytech and its customers?
For Kaytech: Kaytech views B-BBEE as the cog behind the broader transformation objective in South Africa; contributing to the growth, development and stability in our economy and enabling our country to reach its full economic potential. Our B-BBEE status represents our commitment to social and economic transformation.
For our customers: For every R1 spent with Kaytech, our South African customers are able to claim R1 towards their B-BBEE procurement spend. Ultimately, this means an improved B-BBEE score for them.
"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Do you have any other interesting news to report?
In keeping with our commitment to job creation, Kaytech is excited about the launch of the new YES initiative. Watch this space!
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You just keep on telling yourselves that girls….
Well, it's like I say in the introduction, if you've been following the franchise, you probably know what to expect. If this is your first time 'round, then I can give a brief TL;DR. It's all about the characters being a chew-toy to the "plot". Tragedy is when you try to, with the goodness of all intentions, befriend a hungry bear and get Smash Bro'd off the screen. Comedy is when it happens to Sherl. In the first series of the show Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, the main cast lose what are called Toys, a superpower of sorts. In this world of semi-futuristic Yokohama, the Great Detectives and the Gentlemen Thieves are the usual recipients of said Toys. Unless of course your Sherlock Shellingford, Cordelia Glauca, Nero Yuzurizaki, or Herclue Barton (left to right in above pic). When they had them, they were the best the Tantei (Detective) Academy ever had. When they lost them…..pure chew-toy. No wits, no brains, no clues, nothing but pratfalls and harebrained logic. This was, of course, the plan of the Great Gentlemen Thief Arséne, who stole their Toys to make them….better. It fails, humorously so. I rather enjoyed the first season, but felt the second one indulged in flanderization tropes to it's discredit; what was goofy humor became perverse and at times, just idiotic….
Stealing idol voices….it's a metaphor for illegal downloading? Maybe? No…..who cares….
So while the first two outings of the franchise were marked by insanity, they released two OVA's based on a video game where they were with Toys, and cool, confident, and collected, Milky Holmes Alternate. Fans generally hated it, but liked the idea of competent Toy using detectives. So, they then gave us Futari wa Milky Holmes, the adventure of Alice and Kazumi, two elementary school students with Toys that form their own detective duo. It was a bit more serious, with a somewhat approachable non-comedic plot. Fans didn't like it. And with that in mind, I do wonder what the fans reaction will be to this Extreme fourth series (the titular Kageki…maybe TD means True Detective). It feels like they've split the difference between the first series and Futari wa, giving us something a touch less brain-damaged, but still generally goofy.
So in this new adventure, our set up is a mysterious new Thief stealing all the voices of the popular idols in Yokohama. Not just the singing voice, but all the data on the CDs, eTones (I'm avoiding a lawsuit folks), clouds, and one would assume any eight-track tapes that remain popular. So both the city's top police detective, Kokoro Akechi (don't call her Kokoro-chan) of the Genius 4 (the other three are out sick, or trying to figure out life, or returning a book for this adventure) and our Milky Holmes are on the case.
…and it looks like the prime target is the possessor of a unique Toys called Elements, the joy and happiness of an idol singing music….or…stuff like that…..Marine Amagi of the idol group BKT 1000 (feckin' heck Japan….get some new writers!).
But it looks like her manager had a bit of a convoluted plan to set Marine up for early retirement, just to cash in on a rare figure deal, Marine's hour of shame. Or was it Melodia's possession of said manager that caused it all? Or does it even matter? I'm guessing the Elements affect different peoples in different ways….
Cause losing her Elements just made her a horrible comedian….
They used the honey to attract bees that stung them to lumps that float like helium balloons…..because….reasons….
…cause really this is how all great detectives operate. A specific soil in a boot print? Nah. A certain kind of tobacco ash and the shape of one's hands. Balderdash. It's all about being Milky Holmes….that's how you solve the case!
*Milky* Holmes. LOLis should have their milk.
Well, I guess until this show hits an official stream this is the most I will get….
This is the kind of Milky Holmes I like, and as you mention about Futari and Alternative's approach to be more serious, it seems like from the 1st ep that they might try to find a balance; though I guess that depends on how long the idol case lasts in regards to episode count.
There were a couple episodes in the first 2 seasons where things got real, and they were sorta standout eps to me because I was impressed at how they were executed in the midst of the derpy bits that go on each episode.
If they do strike that balance I think I'll be pleased, as a third time repeat would make it somewhat unwatchable.


I've decided to make this "State of Sidosi" a regular thing, possibly less than a year, since that's quite a while for a small community.
Yes, I have beaten my excuses to death, but the fact remains that Solresol and Sidosi are a hobby for me, which means it gets pushed aside at the slightest call of a more significant job/project. I figure I'll get a bit personal and share some of what I've been doing that past year. I've been working with a local college professor on a book she's writing, copy editing and handling the technological side of preparing a book for publishing. I've also been helping my best friend, who teaches music at the same college, with the band he started this school year. Finally, I've joined and made a website for a ska punk band, The Runner Ups, which is quickly picking up momentum. Anyway, that's probably enough about me, so let's talk about Sidosi!
I realize I've dropped the ball on working on updates in a timely manner, and as one that always keeps an eye on the community, I feel I've partially led to the decline in activity. I understand that other members are probably facing the same time constraints I am, but it is still disheartening to slowly watch activity come to a crawl (no offense to those members who currently post regularly). Anyway, I'll work on scheduling regular time to all of my projects, so even Sidosi can see regular improvements. For now, here's the list of future plans I posted last time (with one addition).
Updated Resource List - There have been quite a few resources revealed since I last updated the list, and I truly hope all of those resources are still around to be archived. Due to the time-sensitive nature of Internet resources, this will be my first priority.
Website Design Unity - For this website's entire existence, it has had two designs. The first was the very basic one I threw together for hosting the translator and resources list; the second is the template I chose for the forums. I will finally work to unify the design for a consistent experience across all pages on Sidosi.
More Wiki Articles - I realize a wiki is supposed to be a community project, but I feel it just hasn't had enough activity to take off yet. Therefore, I'm going to sink some more time and effort into adding new pages to the wiki, and hopefully shaping it into a resource in its own right.
Improved Translator - Yes, this has been my pet project ever since I launched its first incarnation. I really do enjoy meddling in the algorithms of the translator and adding features or making it work better. The sizable roadmap for the translator definitely leaves a lot of potential for this project.
Other Misc. Updates (not in original list) - I believe over time, I have listed several minor updates to do, then promptly forgotten that I mentioned them. I'll look back and try to work on those smaller updates as well. One significant reference is last year's "State of Sidosi".
I realize there's not a lot to this "State of Sidosi", but many of the topics have been covered before and unfortunately ignored by me. So, let's work together to make this a great year for Solresol and Sidosi!


Also I find it absolutely insane tractor trailers are even allowed on the bridge.
That is a "low-water" bridge over the Potomac River, and it is indeed tolled. The weight limits are pretty low, and I know that a laden tractor-trailer is not allowed to use the bridge.
Bridge toll rates must be approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission (even though the crossing links Maryland and West Virginia, the entire river, up to the "low water mark" on the south shore, is Maryland territory).
There is another thread about it somewhere on this forum with dashcam video I uploaded. I got a kick out of the little metal cup the toll-taker extends on a pole. If you search for my username and "low water toll bridge" you should be able to find the thread. I drive across the bridge in July 2013 en route to the Omni Bedford Springs for our third anniversary. My wife said the bridge reminded her of rural roads in Hungary and Romania.
I have some pictures of it as well. Am going to try and work this bridge into the Corridor H meet for next year.
That would be fantastic. I would be slightly terrified to cross it, but would probably be just fine once it came time.


29th Digging at Colling Camp & Courrelles. 30th night digging at Sailly. Cable (?) returned 3am. 31st Played at YMCA with band. Received official news of Hopkins death. 1st June. B O S.
3rd Capt. Di Pledge killed. Major Dewhurst. Lieut. Smith wounded.
17th On Guard at Div Bomb Store. Enemy aeroplanes fly over about 7pm. 18th come off guard. 7pm same date went up to trenches up to knees in mud, filling in Cable trench (?). Returned to Bus at 4am 19th June. Slept until 1pm & nothing else doing today. Digging etc up at the trenches until 24th when our great bombardment started.
25th June enemy aeroplanes fly over Bus & drop 3 bombs in our camp slightly wounding two KOYLIs. 26th Bosche shells Bus & kills 2 of 16th Bradfords & wound two or three more. 27th buzzed about all day getting ready for tomorrow night. Wrote letters in Bed to Maud. 28th Have sent letter to Maud, also P.Cs to Mother, Louis, Annie, Davy and Maud. Am patiently waiting for tonight & shall be glad when it is all over. 29th Advance postponed until tomorrow.
This photo of men of the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers was taken in the "Sunken Lane" just before the attack. These infantrymen (foot soldiers) are armed with rifles and long bayonets. They were sent out into no-man's-land, walking, rifles at the slope, against machine guns. The bombardment to which Wilfred refers in his diary was supposed to have destroyed the German machine gun posts and defences. It didn't. For ten minutes before Zero the artillery bombardment stopped and an eerie silence descended on the battlefield.
The attack started at 7.30 in the morning of 1st July 1916. By 8.00am most of his battalion had been annihilated and Sergeant Sewell was mortally wounded with gunshot wounds to his head and thigh. He spent the night out in "no-man's-land" and was brought back to England where he died of his wounds on the 9th July.
"Things had quietened down early on the Serre Front. By ten in the morning it had been all over. Two out of three of the men who had gone over the top had become casualties and lay dead or wounded on the gentle slope between their trenches and the German lines. The Pals who had joined up in all the euphoria of the early weeks of the war, the lads from Leeds, from Bradford, from York, from Lancaster, from Sheffield, from Hull, had been slaughtered in the first short hour of the great battle. The last echo of the cheers and the shouts, the last faint remembered notes of the brass bands that had sent them off from the towns and villages of the north, had died out in a whisper that morning in front of Serre."


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