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[CLKD]

on Friday apparently.  Anyone joining in with street parties etc., distancing of course?  I simply can't be bothered.  The local pubs are providing food boxes for families to share, on their lawns rather than spreading tables as we did a few years back.  Weather looks fair.  With bunting.  V J Day seems to have been forgotten  which didn't happen until later that year.

[Taz2]

I remember my mum telling me about it. Her excitement was tinged with sadness as her husband had been killed in Singapore in 1942 two months before my brother was born. She felt at the time that not much mention was made of those still incarcerated by the Japanese and felt quite alone in her sadness while all of the street parties were going on around her.

I'm looking forward to hearing the various stories though.

Taz x

[Donnadoobie]

I remember my Mum (who would have been 3 weeks away from being 20) telling me that she danced on the table in the local pub, which was frequented by American GI's. 

I am sure my Grandmother never got to hear about this, she would definitely not have approved.


On my cynical side.  I would love to be able to celebrate 75 years of peace in Europe.  However 75 years on and we have learned nothing,  so it sticks in my throat a little.

[CLKD]

MinL always felt that the Prisoners who returned from the Far East in August/September were forgotten by our Government, there wasn't even a welcoming committee from the local Mayors ............... V E returnees were welcomed as heroes.   


Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. ... August 15 is the official V-J Day for the UK, while the official US commemoration is September 2.

[CLKD]

People were the fittest during and after the War for many years: until sugar rationing came off in 1952.

[Lanzalover]

There are a couple of roads on our estate who are having a street party they hav been told to sit in their front gardens so social distancing can be maintained.

The apartments were my Mum lives are having a party in the communal garden they all have to take a chair and their own food and drink. She was 13 at the time and remembers her next door neighbours taking her and their daughter into Glasgow city centre for the celebrations and said she had a great time dancing surrounded by adults who looked so relieved and just having a good time.

Lanzalover x

[CLKD]

I think that's a lovely idea.  Weather looking good! 

[sheila99]

It's sad many of the older generation won't be able to celebrate it, it's really their celebration not ours. It would be nice if they could do something after lockdown, many of them won't be around to celebrate 80 years.

[CLKD]

Lots of bunting up around our village and communal singing arranged outside the Pub. Apparently .........

Trying to avoid but it looks like I will be dragged in ........... Look out for the Red Arrows across parts of the UK today :-)  -  they don't tend to distance much though do they 

[Salad]

One lot of bunting at the end of our road - might venture out for a walkabout later to see what else is going on. Just because I'm nosey 

[CLKD]

take your camera?