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My granddad was in the First World War and had suffered shell shock. After the war he worked as an insurance agent and so used to do the books at home - always with proper pen and ink which he sat on his desk.

One night during the Blitz I heard a bomb whizzing over head - it was vey close! We all ran under the stairs but grandad said 'if I leave that pen and ink on the table and it goes all over she will tell me off!'. He was more scared of what his wife, my grandma, would say about the ink making a mess than of the bombs. It was also because he'd experienced the First World War that he didn't find the bombs as intimidating as us. But in any case we found this very funny and it made us laugh as the bombs dropped and we hid under the stairs.

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