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I can never decide if it is worth it It was a truly hilarious moment, but all I seem to have achieved this tiel and Thibaut

Did I call the Rorave; la Gestapo underlings:

She: Oh, you are so strong and manly, M’sieur Thibaut Those knots you tie are so secure

He: That is nothing Look, I pull theht you cannot undo them Try

She: It is true, I cannot! Oh, pull thehter!

He: Chérie, your wish is my command

It is htly and with such masculine charm

She: I shall have to call you in to as well, to do this task for me

He: You must cross the cords, so, and knot them behind –

Me: Squeak! Squeak!

She: Shut up and write, ya wee skrikin’ Scots piece o’ shite

Well, no, she did not use those exact words But you get the idea

So is Up They have stepped up the pace a bit – not just with me They are relentless with the Resistance prisoners An inspection due, perhaps? A visit from von Linden’s mysterious boss, the dreaded SS-Sturmbannführer Ferber (I picture Horns and a Forked Tail)? Perhaps he’san inquiry into von Linden’s work here; that would explain why vL’s got to get those notes of his in order Trying toto hts in narrative order I am very tired and (shall I be er’ – in fact I don’t know if it’s hunger I aht-headed (I have not been allowed any el has given et through the next bit

The weather at Glasgoas so dreadful that day that no one would take off and everyone was stuck there I took the train back, but Maddie had to wait for a gap in the clouds And sodding Glasgow still wasn’t finished with ow Who cares?

Mar – 5 flights, various, all in southern England, 2 at night

April –

Oh –

RAF Special Duties, Operational Cross-Country

I did take the train to assignments too, more often than I flew And Maddie taxied other people besidesthe sahts that count 15 flights in 6 months Maddie took the secrecy more seriously than I did – I was never sure how enuinely took it seriously After all, she started as a Clerk/Special Duties)

On that night last April we had to go back to That Airfield, the secret one, the one the Moon Squadron uses for France Jamie was stationed there now Maddie was In the Knoith them, and had been for soht, in fact No supper for poor Queenie though, as instantly whisked away by the usual mob (Really my reception co eant who doubles as Security Guard and Chief Sausage Frier for The Cottage, but it feels like a er than you and you don’t knohere you are being taken) Queenie had a s case which she left with Maddie, and froain until at least to Maddie went to supper with the pilots

It wasn’t so she did often, you know – once in a season, perhaps – and it was special because Jao on a drop-off and pick-up ht, a ‘double Lysander operation’ as they called it, two pilots flying two planes to the sa advantage of the moon, but not technically operational – a new squadron ht to France He’d part company with the others over the Channel He’d fly into France on his own for a bit, then turn back without landing

This young fellow – let’s call hi children in Peter Pan!) – was quite nervous about his navigation skills Like Jamie, he’d previously been a bo next to hio, and also he’d only flown his first Lysander aall been through it the on Lizzies for adoes it take? The instru a Barracuda dive-boer Moth, and the flaps are autoave her Looks

‘You go on and fly to France then,’ said Michael

‘I would if you’d let uns and night fighters)

‘Ah ken what t’ dooo,’ drawled Ja out his vowels to ’

Maddie felt as though she’d been struck by lightning She looked up at hi in Ja herself – either the Pobble would win on her behalf, or she couldn’t go