A useful historical perspective from the indomitable Mrs T.
In my humble opinion, she writes, that piece about bluebirds was quite pathetic. totally missing the point. Vera Lynn expressed it so much better in that song of hers about "blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover just you wait and see, etc" Actually the etc was not part of the lyric, but I am sure you know what I mean, even if you are not Welsh.
That song. despite being repeated till the cows left home, undoubtedly helped to win the Battle of Britain because Luftwaffe pilots couldn't understand the words and probably thought it was a coded message saying something like "Go and bomb Scunthorpe", which, sadly, they never did.
But we won anyway, at least till the war was over, partly thanks to Dame Lynn and her bluebirds.
Yours etc Blodwen Trellis
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