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The Barrage Balloon

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01 August 2005

The news soon spread — there’s a barrage balloon down in Carew Road. My sister and I asked our mother if we could go and see it. “Yes,” she replied, “but be back for dinner.”

We hurried through the alleyway and there it was — a huge white whale marooned in the road. How did it get there, and who let it go? The royal Air Force officer in charge was not used to this situation. He glared at the children gathered there and said “keep well back,” then added “and no smoking.”

We stayed a long as we could and then went home for dinner. We returned immediately and it had vanished. We never found out how, but I suspect that when the siren went off and the balloons went up somebody counted and said “there’s one missing.”

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