Mag and Bet helped me to play Bingo. I sat on a table with them. Bet had a ‘Take a Break’ magazine and they had their own camping cutlery that they had brought with them.
Mag filled my bonus bingo sheet in for me. I felt like I did when I was little, surrounded by sisters on a kitchen table. Mag and Bet had a gentle intimacy that suggested to me that they were sisters, adn indeed they were. Bet had been married for 52 years, Mag for 51. They said they were terrified at the thought of them dying.
Bet told me her daughter in law caught German Measles when she was pregnant and that both she and the baby died.
I thought of Susan Sontag and her comments about an illness being foreign, Spanish Flu, English Flu (in other countries). I wondered how German Measles came about German Measles came about a s a title. German Ocean a much more lovely name than North Sea. Alsation more poetic than German Shephard?
