Juxtaprose 2

Vera Brittain relates the story of a Scottish sergeant who had been posted across from a Saxon regiment at Ypres. These two forces had agreed not to aim at each other when they fired. They made a great deal of noise, an outsider would have thought the men were fighting hard, but in practice no one was hit. The battle was reduced to a series of rituals, as with the Greeks and Trojans. Other letters and diaries make mention of this system as well... Another said: 'On the front we were on, the Boche signals when the artillery is going to fire and show us the no. of rounds by holding fingers up.' Robert Graves witnessed letters arriving from the Germans, rolled up in old mortar shells: 'Your little dog has run over to us and we are keeping it safe here.' 1. Geert Mak, In Europe. Vintage, 2008, p115.

five years of peace two years of hell just paid of my morgage built a lovely exstention then the guy above sells his home to to guys to rent out gut the place out put cheap nasty carpet down no underlay to people on the social with kids after goin to the door on numerous ocassions decided to speak to landlord to see if he could put some decent underlay down didnt make any difference asked him if we could have a meeting between us him and his tenents he said no to me but must have phoned them and told them i was still complaining about the noise the adult stood in the middle of the floor and jumped up and down six or seven times with all the power he could muster my wife who is in the early stages of Ms ran to the door and he gave her nothing but abuse spat on her we phoned the police but nothing has changed they still let their ten year old kid run about and stomped on the floor morning noon and night our plant pots in our garden have been smashed on our drive way what next their new tactic is to turn the taps on and off consistantely morning noon and night they also have tiles in the kitchen and the bathroom without any insulation i couldnt even sell my house if anybody came to view it they would walk right out the door they slam door one after the other very ignorant cant be good for the 6mnth year old kid to here all the noise could go on for ever but the noise above my head is driven me mad (2).