Ink Stains and Empty Teacups

Forgive me for commenting so out of the blue but for some reason I did see you in my visitor's list and thought I'd take a look at your LJ. And this little post reminded me of the fact that my great-grandfather got a medal for fighting at Gallipoli... on the Turkish side (he was there on secondment from the German army... my mum said he lived to get pretty old and was eventually killed by a shrapnel that had been buried in his head for decades) and of the fact that it does seem like a miracle that today our countries are on the same side ;)