Good mood didn't last long. Spent 12 hours with ppl yesterday & now desperately need to be left alone but ppl keep existing in my vicinity.
Manager wld say I wasn't taking breaks & it was important for health & safety to take a break from stresses of work.
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Tried to say: Well-told stories of wartime farm-work = not stressful. General chatter abt life now & moaning abt other staff = stressful
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Now I know how to appear to be wearing stockings using tea-leaves & an eye-brow pencil. This could be important one day!
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The two oldest ladies I worked with were born in the 1880s. Both the oldest ppl in UK for a while at 113. Clear-minded.
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One of my ladies, Sarah, lost her 3 brothers & fiance at the start of the first world war. She said they were sent in without guns.
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She said working class boys from East End given sticks & told to hit Germans with them & take their guns. I have never verified this.
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My 20th century history is terrible but I tend to know a lot abt women's experiences of wartime. Men talked about it far less. To me, anyway
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No idea why I'm talking about this right now. Thinking of working full-time again now but not in care work.
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I wldnt want to do care work now. The Emmas, Claires & Lucies are long gone, the Gladyses, Lilies & Muriels are nearly all gone.
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