Ant Noras sensitive ears

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My mother’s sister, Auntie Nora worked in an ammunitions factory and claimed that she could tell the difference between German and English aeroplanes simply by the engine noise.

One day Auntie Nora came to visit us and the air raid sirens went off as a plane flew over head. “That’s a Gerry” she said to my Dad and he didn’t believe her until an incendiary bomb landed in our garden.

My Dad never challenged her again!

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