November 2009
6 posts
“It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you’ve...”
– Joe E. Lewis
Before The Fall – part two
My confustulation over the year of our first trip to Berlin is over. Among the mails I received commenting on the first part of ” Before The Fall ” the following arrived from Ollie: “OK Colin, how about the following year 1965 off to Berlin for a radio show with a snotty 15 year old in tow…” Clearly the first Berlin trip Shirley and I made must’ve been 1964. The...
“Oh, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use...”
– William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
Before The Fall
As you must know by now,it’s twenty years since the Berlin Wall,plus the 156 ks of the Inner German Border came down,and the divided country became an entity once more. Naturally there have been loads of celebrations,umpteen TV programs describing life in the DDR,so I reckoned I oughter weigh in with a coupler anecdotes of me own. I have (surprise,surprise) a whole heap but will not try...
