my grandfather knew Lloyd Georgemy nan also made a cup of tea for the King during the war, that Mr Hitler and his funny ideas, everyone knew they;d do more harm than good, what with Niemoller and his platitudes, you;d think they'd have bought him some winter socks in his condition, well I'm telling you now it was hard in them days, cruel hard, we had to go up the road in all weathers, miles it was, just for a piece of coal or an apple, and if you came back empty handed you'd soon catch it from Uncle Fred, my he had a temper but he was still a CO even if he wasn't a pacifist, never done a day's work in his life, him, my poor grandad didn't know what to do with him, and all them workhouses had been shut down by then, that bloody George Canning and his newfangled ideas
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