well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down, you see, and i think that's the nearest i've been to be killed but one day, one saturday and that was in a daylight raid, one saturday afternoon because, you see, i was off every afternoon but i worked till ten every night, you see, and er so erm but of course hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening, that's why he used to come down to see, to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and, oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends, have a chat, and er, you see, and but er and i was walking along  it was called and suddenly a plane came over and i thought oh i expect it's one of ours.