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[Sean, Moderator]

Don't forget Robert Bryndza is answering questions today, in the authors section


Please do join in.

[Amber]

If anyone else is on Twitter, are you having difficulties, such as not having gotten an update in at least the past 20 minutes or an "Internal Server Error" message when you try to Tweet?

[Christine]

I don’t do Twitter

[Sandi]

Twitter’s limit of characters keeps entries short. But I get additional or the opposite side in fairly short time. Since you can limit who tweets with you, there is much less to read. Also less to update you.

[Christine]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!

[Lorrea - WhatChaReadin'?]

Christine wrote: "GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!"

Good Morning Christine!! I hope you have a Marvelous Monday!!

[Amber]

Mondays suck.

[Sean, Moderator]

I Hate Mondays..... LOL

Love Fridays !!

[Amber]

Ditto.

[Christine]

Aww thanks and I love the weekends

[Amber]

As long as they don't have to work on the weekends, who doesn't?

[Christine]

I agree with you Amber

[Amber]

:)

[Christine]

What’s everyone’s weekend plans?

[Kirsten]

To get rid of my headache....

[Christine]

Aww that stinks

[Kirsten]

That's what happens when the air pressure changes

[Christine]

Yeah that’s true and I hope you feel better

[Kirsten]

Me too.

[Christine]

Are you taking any medications for your headaches?

[Amber]

My weekend plans? I never plan.

[Kirsten]

Sudafed and aspirin

[Christine]

I take a muscle relaxer for my headaches and whenever my body hurts and yesterday me and my parents had a yard sale and I went out to dinner and today I’m going to be relaxing

[Perri]

Relaxing is high on my to-do list today :)

[Christine]

I agree with you Perri

[Perri]

Christine wrote: "I agree with you Perri"

Christine, you'll be glad to know I did a great job relaxing yesterday. In fact I should apply for a job in that! :)

[Christine]

Well good for you Perri

[Sean, Moderator]

I am sure many of you may not know but today is a public holiday in Jersey...

May 9th, the day Jersey was liberated from the Germans in 1945

[P.K.]

Sean wrote: "I am sure many of you may not know but today is a public holiday in Jersey...

May 9th, the day Jersey was liberated from the Germans in 1945"

[P.K.]

Yes, Sean; a memorable day. I knew a Nazi youth who was posted on Jersey and later stayed here and married a girl from Plymouth. It was quite an education to listen to him talking about that period in his life. He never once returned to Germany. That was more common than I realised and I used the information for a small part of my upcoming novel The Girl Of Drovers' Hill. Incidentally, he was always called 'Gerry', even by his wife and I'm not sure even she knew his real name.

[Amber]

Maybe he got so used to that, that he never told her his real name, P.K.

[Christine]

I didn’t know that

[P.K.]

Amber wrote: "Maybe he got so used to that, that he never told her his real name, P.K."

[P.K.]

He did, Amber. He had a remarkale sense of unfeeling. In all our meetings he never explained his family life in Germany that he did not want to go back. Of course, when the war ended it was a terrible situation for many on the Continent and often there was no home to go back to. Many ex prisoners worked on our farms and helped to clear up the mess the Luftwaffe had made even while still officially prisoners. My character came from Cotbus, on the Polish border which was soon overrun by advancing Soviet forces and I describe the dilemna of him being returned to the Soviet part of Germany and being transported to a Siberian mine - as thousands of them were. The Soviets had a lot of revenge in their systems and they used it. But who can blame them for what they suffered?

[Sean, Moderator]

Yes, I am lucky I live on a beautiful island of Jersey.

But is does history, the only part of the UK that was under the control of the Germans.

Many German bunkers can be found around the island today.

[Amber]

I don't blame them for what they suffered, I just blame for what they did to avenge what they suffered... .

[Christine]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!

[Diane S ☔]

Good morning, Christine. Has gotten awfully dark here, we have some big strong coming our way. Looks kind of scary out.

[Amber]

My brother said we seem to have skipped Spring and rolled straight on into Summer.

[Christine]

I hate this rainy weather

[Sean, Moderator]

Yes, hot and sunny I like

Hate rain, wind and cold !

[Amber]

You obviously don't have asthma, Sean. I do. If it's too hot and dry, I can't breathe. Too hot and wet, I can't breathe. Too cold and dry, ditto. Too cold and wet, ditto again.

Ideal humidity for me is EXACTLY 50%

[Kirsten]

I agree with Amber. Too much humidity is nasty! Though, I never had the problem with hot, dry air. Cold, dry is very bad - hence the humidifier in the winter months. Any kind of wet air is like trying to breathe a solid object.

[Christine]

I’m ready for warm weather

[Kirsten]

Warm, yes. Stifling heat, no.

[Christine]

I agree with you Kirsten

[Amber]

I think we both do, Christine.

[Christine]

It’s been raining a lot where I am

[Amber]

Same here, Christine.

[Christine]

I have plans this summer