Am 31.10.2006 um 06:47 schrieb turpin fitch:

> remember the hutch rabbits in Watership Down? - it's an allegory for 
> the enemies of state socialism (not that I am one of these really - 
> not when I think of the joy of the first recipients of pension checks 
> (and of their attempts to send presents of eggs and baked goods to the 
> prime minister 'Lord George'(sic)

dearest Turpo
you must be referring to Miss Thompson's memoir Larkrise to Candleford. 
Do you remember what she recalls Everyone saying, Always, when they 
would tell and retell their canons of stories of disasters?!

'We didnt flinch!'

  Castra  xo