Obviously it's great to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe today. Not Victory Over Europe, as some of our Daily Mail-reading members have it, nor "Stick it to the Germans Day", as others have.
So as we cower in our bunkers, awaiting this latest terrible disaster - that has killed more than the Blitz - to go over, we'll give it some good cheer. The timetable is as follows:
11:00 Silence to remember the lives of good men and women, who fought for a noble cause. British, Poles, Indians, Americans,Canadians, Russians, Free French, the Resistance in occupied countries, volunteers from Ireland, those from Africa and Asia and Australia and New Zealand and many others I've failed to include in this broad sweep. Those who stayed at home and prayed. Those who were brutally slaughtered at the command of evil men. And also the people who were deluded into supporting evil men, and suffered as much as our own islands many times over. And those who came out of the war and realised that they still weren't free.
11:02 A cup of good ol' Rosie Lea.
11:30 Knees up, Mother Brown
12:00: Lambeth Walk (physically distanced)
12:30: Hold a Pebble for Mother Julian
13:00: A proper Cockerney knees-up lunch.
14:00 Run out of Cockerney things.
15:00 Make some bunting?
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All followed by a pint of "vintage" Bass at the virtual pub, surely?
ReplyDeleteIf we really want to reproduce that post-war austerity feeling, good idea.
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