When this lousy war is over, no more soldiering for me,
When I get my civvy clothes on, oh how happy I shall be.
No more church parades on Sunday, no more putting in for leave,
I will miss the Sergeant-Major,
How he'll miss me how he'll grieve.
No more standing to in trenches,
Only one more church parade,
No more NCOs to curse us,
No more tickler's marmalade.
When this lousy war is over,
No more soldiering for me,
When I get my civvy clothes on,
Oh how happy I shall be.
People said when we enlisted,
Fame and medals we would win,
But the fame is in the guardroom,
And those medals made of tin.
When this lousy war is over,
No more soldiering for me,
When I get my civvy clothes on
Oh how happy I shall be.
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Lead Picture
Sunday, June 30, 2019
See ‘Thumbnail’ below
Commentary
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Losing things.
Is it personal with me?
Sunglasses, hats, keys, credit cards.
How do I stop them from running away from me?
How often am I calling a café or the library or my hair salon to ask, “Did anyone turn in a…?”
As often as not I do recover the item.
The classic was, distracted by my three-year-old, an impoverished time of my life, I left my waist pouch on the subway.
When I got home I called and they would check.
But it being late in the day, I should call tomorrow.
I tossed all night.
I called.
“Describe it, please.”
I did.
They did.
I high-tailed it over and there it was.
I opened it up.
Three hundred dollars in cash, intact.
Joy.
Losing things.
Boasting the same tragic value as getting a parking ticket.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time Sunday, June 30, 2019
Our 450th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 450 posts we’re at the 9.00 percentile of our commitment, that commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
We are racing to the 10% mark.
Now there’s a mark, 10%.
And then?
And then will remain only 9 more such marks to fulfill our commitment to the blog.
Time of posting is 12.01am on Sunday morning.
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Weather
Sunday, June 30, 2019
On this Sunday Boston will enjoy mild temperatures, with a high of 72* and a feels-like of 81* with a risk of a thunderstorm.
After today, the next days look splendid, with possible showers by next weekend.
Seventies and eighties with a lot of sun.
Anyone complaining?
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Chuckle of the Day:
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Two lawyers walking through the woods spot a vicious looking bear.
The first lawyer immediately opens his briefcase, pulls out a pair of sneakers and starts putting them on.
The second lawyer looked at him saying, "You're crazy! You'll never be able to outrun that bear!"
"I don't have to. I only have to outrun you."
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Today’s Thumbnail
Sunday, June 30, 2019
David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau - Auckland War Memorial Museum
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end.
The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which had directly led to the war.
The other Central Powers on the German side signed separate treaties.
Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty.
The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919.
Of the many provisions in the treaty, one of the most important and controversial required "Germany [to] accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage" during the war (the other members of the Central Powers signed treaties containing similar articles).
This article, Article 231, later became known as the War Guilt clause.
The treaty required Germany to disarm, make ample territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers.
In 1921 the total cost of these reparations was assessed at 132 billion marks (then $31.4 billion or £6.6 billion, roughly equivalent to US$442 billion or UK£284 billion in 2019).
At the time economists, notably John Maynard Keynes (a British delegate to the Paris Peace Conference), predicted that the treaty was too harsh—a "Carthaginian peace"—and said the reparations figure was excessive and counter-productive, views that, since then, have been the subject of ongoing debate by historians and economists.
On the other hand, prominent figures on the Allied side, such as French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, criticized the treaty for treating Germany too leniently.
The result of these competing and sometimes conflicting goals among the victors was a compromise that left no one satisfied, and, in particular, Germany was neither pacified nor conciliated, nor was it permanently weakened.
The problems that arose from the treaty would lead to the Locarno Treaties, which improved relations between Germany and the other European powers, and the re-negotiation of the reparation system resulting in the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, and the indefinite postponement of reparations at the Lausanne Conference of 1932.
Although it is often referred to as the "Versailles Conference", only the actual signing of the treaty took place at the historic palace.
Most of the negotiations were in Paris, with the "Big Four" meetings taking place generally at the Quai d'Orsay.
When my boyfriend and I aren’t speaking I keep a list of demands in here. I don’t share them with him. After the fact they always seem unnecessarily hurtful.
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Good Morning on this Sunday, the thirtieth day of June, 2019
Our lead picture incites the fear that right-minded people feel at the prospect of war, tying into today’s thumbnail on the Treaty of Versailles, one of the causes of another war.
We posted the Boston weather report, the ticking calendar, and the growing number of posts as a calendar marker.
We posted our dinner and a chuckle re: a bear and flight.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.