We are a sensational team.

Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.