Summary: | GLM01 talks about: some old photographs, taking them for people to see at Saviour’s Community Centre, going back there for a barn dance, playing the accordion; learning to play on an accordion that was missing notes; playing with a group of musicians when he was younger, kids; uncle being known as the ‘onion king’, different forms of physical discipline for kids when misbehaving (smacks/slaps); going fishing with a Mr Girard when younger; an old Mr Jehan’s house being knocked down by the German during the Occupation; one day going fishing together, mackerel, a plenty, Mr Jehan being a good fisherman, and navigator, he had fished on mackerel drifters, got lost, heading towards Les Rocques Douvres instead of Les Hanois in his father’s boat; fishing for other fish; fishing for lady crabs; ormering, larger quantities in the past, supplying people; Germans cleared beaches of limpets; his mother preparing ormers; Perelle sea wall repairs, names of old stone masons; airport construction/extension, fewer flights/air travellers; Forest Stores, liking the bread flown in from Dinard; bread in general; buses, and the problems, bus companies in the past, buses being too big, travel being more convenient by car; his age and birthday; directions to where a Guernesiais (G) speaker lives, starting from Cobo; not speaking G often, but thinking in it; other speakers that have died (family names), another speaker and location of his house; sayings and nursery rhyme about rocking a cradle, other songs and nonsense saying about tapping a barrel; things to say to naughty children, names for rascal, lazy etc; working on the farm, going to school during the Occupation, Germans took his father’s land to build gun emplacements, and also taking a lot of greenhouses, working for Mr Le Prevost, then Mr Le Cheminant at Les Forgettes, being able to make an Ox work, with grandfather, others couldn’t; cutting furze for the States at reservoir during the Occupation; working as a carpenter, paint making him ill, driving horses, going on own as carpenter/builder; his grandfather, walking from La Rocque (St. Saviour’s) to Fort George every day to work, being a good stone mason; boys with names beginning with G, and another with beginning with E, 22 siblings; uncle living at ‘Lé Caudré’ (St. Peter’s), directions to house, Ozannes living around there, some that are living in New Zealand as well; a gang of lads from Perelle, swimming to Rocher Messurier, names of members of gang, La Tabllaette for boats, la Conchée; the Prosperity (freight ship that foundered), if crew had stayed on board they may have survived, lifeboat not making headway as the weather was so bad; a day in a boat Les Grunes, the weather changed, another time when fog came in and having to quickly gather gear and head for home, coming ashore; sea markers for marking position of crab pots, different ones he used to use, changed now, electronic equipment; the price of crabs in the past and nowadays; doing gardening, housework, cooking, growing different vegetables, grapes, tying grapes, thinning and pruning them, having tomato seeds from before the war; knowing the Rev.Richard Bellinger from St. Stephen’s Church, his wife read there, her funeral, her being a good artist, funeral service arrangements; Caritas – a charity instigated by the Rev.Richard Bellinger, offering to help out; ploughing for an old farmer, cutting wheat etc, and making sheaves, oats, wheat, barley etc Language_Name: Guernesais Language_Region: Europe Language_Country: UK Project_Status: Complete Year: 2009 Start_Date: 2009-10-01 End_Date: 2010-07-31
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