A Little Real Belfast In My Day

[jennyjoan]

women (mad as hatters) fighting with soldiers on the actual street I lived on. I knew all the women as I said they hysterically mad - there was another street that ran parallel to it and I run on to my work.

Felt sorry for the soldiers that day as even before that movie came out my mother always spoke to the soldiers as all my family did - cos she said (They're some Mother's son).

Those soldiers/fellas didn't want to be there - so just doing their bloody job.

that's the real Belfast guys not Kenneth Brannagh's Belfast.

[Redhelen72]

As you have been told many times before KB Belfast is seen through the eyes of a 9 year old boy so its not supposed to be real life.

When I was 9 I believed that everything was rose and that someday I would grow up and marry a prince!

[jennyjoan]

I know Helen - but that was through my eyes in my 20s unfortunately.

[TheWinner]

Redhelen, you may not have married a prince, but you still got to the palace, so it's near enough.

[Redhelen72]

So JJ why the last comment - everyone knows what Belfast was like.
My brother served there in the 90's and it was still a horrible place to be.

[anneasquith]

It must have been awful to live under those circumstances.

[jennyjoan]

I may have met your brother I may have made him a cup of tea. I meant the post to be kindly to the soldiers. Always loved a man in a uniform

[Redhelen72]

I hope you didn’t meet my brother because
He was an absolute male tart!
He often says he’s not allowed back in NI because of security concerns, we tell him it is more likely because of the children he fathered!!

[jennyjoan]

Being a male tart was probably his attraction.

[Ken4155]

You're right about the women in the video, jj. Mad as hatters, indeed. We roughty-toughty British soldiers often feared the females more than the males. They appeared to have the mistaken belief that we would not fight back against them and their constant barrage of high-pitched insults only served to goad their men onto greater transgressions.

[gulliver1]

14.13 Redhelen .
"When I was 9 I believed that everything was rose and that someday I would grow up and marry a prince
So did Carrie Johnson, and look what she ended up with.

[anneasquith]

Don’t worry about Carrie, she may get a very high paid job soon .