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1am when Brenda and I made our way to bed, all their pajamas and had fun watching whilst they
tired but happy. Saturday morning found Merton, tried to recapture them!
Norman, Malcolm, Brenda and I at Bristol. We We never felt so sorry when our stay came to its
spent the afternoon at a football match having close with the dawning of Monday morning. We
enjoyed a fish 'n chip lunch.
had thoroughly enjoyed our stay and felt
On Saturday evening, a goodbye "neshef" was despondent at the thought of leaving the Kibbutz.
held in honour of Moggy Margolis, his wife Sonia We spent the journey back home reading
and 3-year-old son Dubby, as they were going on magazines and playing pontoon. But although we
Aliyah.
played and joked we still kept our thoughts on that
It poured with rain Sunday morning so we played memorable weekend we spent during the Easter
monopoly in the "sifriyah". In the afternoon, we Holidays of 1946 at the Kibbutz "Gorsey Leaze".
tried to get our own back on the "kibbutniks" who So you see, Dubby – I really was at your farewell
had blackened our faces the previous night whilst Neshef – and that weekend decided for me ---- I
we were peacefully sleeping. We managed to hide
too will make Aliyah and live on a Kibbutz!!
Steffa and Artwork
Moggy Margolis receiving Queen Mary at Gorsey Leaze, 1942
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