https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 09 May 2025 21:53:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720870 Fri, 09 May 2025 21:53:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720870 Is this fiction or a memory

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720770 Fri, 09 May 2025 15:02:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720770 Love this story! Mummy was with an ENSA group when a bomb fell down the road as she ran out of the house to go to the Anderson shelter. The shock wave knocked her down the steps into the grass. She got a gash in her shoulder from flying glass and had to pin a corsage over the strap of her evening dresses to hide the scar. Over 80 years ago now. Memories!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720723 Fri, 09 May 2025 12:03:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720723 A lovely story. I enjoyed it very much.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720703 Fri, 09 May 2025 11:07:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720703 My grandad was saved a few times when he was in the war by his dad, who had died a few years earlier

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720683 Fri, 09 May 2025 09:53:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720683 .. such a nice story of the blitz! I can imagine Timo had lots of tales that would delight a small boy & ghost stories firm favourites – thanks for sharing it.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720681 Fri, 09 May 2025 09:47:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720681 A lovely story beautifully told, thankyou.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720660 Fri, 09 May 2025 08:16:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720660 What a great story and such an experience and memory of wartime, glad it ended well.
Timo sounds like a great character!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720643 Fri, 09 May 2025 07:12:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720643 Lovely story, very well told – thank you GA and Kate.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720622 Fri, 09 May 2025 06:09:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720622 What a rich, satisfying piece of storytelling- I gave a little shiver at the last line!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/09/a-shaggy-dog-tale-i/#comment-1720619 Fri, 09 May 2025 06:01:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203208#comment-1720619 Wonderful story, beautifully written…

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