tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post848536156323368172..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: ...and CanadianHilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-3344191350669811622014-02-07T16:31:23.462+01:002014-02-07T16:31:23.462+01:00I think the impact of the War on British people re...I think the impact of the War on British people really hasn't been fully assessed yet. I know that my own family was drastically changed by it, and the repercussions are very easily seen two and three generations later. Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-13734602951321470932014-02-07T16:28:23.747+01:002014-02-07T16:28:23.747+01:00How then did I end up reflecting my grandparents&#...How then did I end up reflecting my grandparents' generation? I'm more Edwardian in outlook than 1950s by a long shot. <br /><br />The War really muddled things too. My mother and Uncle Mike were raised by Mike's grandmother, (whom I knew as "Nan") in the period immediately following the war when the whole country, particularly bomb-flattened Manchester, had been in a very real sense for most people thrown back into the 19th century. Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-68937618085417898922014-02-07T13:17:59.213+01:002014-02-07T13:17:59.213+01:00Hilary, I think "time bubbles" are a ref...Hilary, I think "time bubbles" are a reflection of upbringing. If you have older parents (mine were in their 40s when I was born), and no older siblings to bridge the gap, you tend to reflect your parents' generation more. Here I am, knocking on the door of fifty, with parents who had Depression-Era childhoods, and grandparents who were late Victorian! <br /><br />Despite growing up in the age of television, to the extent that I have any accent, it is old school Boston Brahmin, with a touch of Maine and an ever so occasional West Clare hiccup. <br /><br />Btw, love Stan Rogers. Sang Barrett's Privateers around many a campfire at night when I was playing AWI Redcoat!G. Thomas Fitzpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07467577516360711271noreply@blogger.com