Volume 1, No. 1

Pennington's Dance / Russell... 3

That's what that one is." Julia would say of her friend Nora.
Most days the two women met at morning Mass and then they would take tea at Nora's house as it was on the way home for Julia. The two women had known each other for more than 30 years after their first meeting during an air raid just at the beginning of World War II. Thrown together back then because of their need to protect their children and pray, the two women got used to settling the children on the floor and listening to the quiet, interspersed with the sound of bombs showering London all around them. Nora and Julia had continued to rely on each other for comfort and support in the proceeding years since the end of the war in 1945.
Both husbands of Nora and Julia were still living during the war years, but both worked as night watchmen, walking up and down the streets of London during the blackouts to remind people to turn out the lights and close