Farm_Cows_German-Occupation

Speaker talks about his father's and farm keeping cows during the WWII German Occupation of Guernsey . . When, when it was the war my father had a farm (him), he had, we had some cows. We had, we had to give them to the Germans, you know. He had bought a- an animal from Sark ... and uh ... a heifer, he was going [??] to keep it until it was a cow [but ??] he had, had to give it up, you know. . . Quaend, quaend ch'tait la djerre mon père avait énne ferme li, il avait d- nou z-avait des vacqs ... Et nou z-aeu, nou z-avait en baillé és Allemoïns, saï tu des ... I n'avait acataï én- énne baete dé Saerk ... et eu ... énne jniche, i sn allait [acoure ??] la gardaï pour vacq, [mais ??] Il avait, avait à n en baillé saï tu. . . #Dgernesiais #Guernesiais #Giernesiais #Djernesiais #GuernseyLanguage # Guernsey #Language #recordings #audio #sound #GuernseyFrench #Giernesiei #Gierrnesiei #GuernseyPatois #patois #NormanFrench #Normand #Languedoil #FrenchDialect #GermanOccupation #cattlefarming #pluperfecttense #present__tense #obligation