“They were a really great crowd,” she said. Blakey, whose year-long romance with Hewlett began with a picnic for two, said her photograph still graces the wall of the club. “I got a great reception whenever I went back to Orkney.” Other famous people Blakey met during her wartime performing career were actors Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Connor, and actress Sybil Thorndike. One of Blakey s most vivid memories of her time on stage was the audience’s roar of laughter when she delivered the Hewlett-penned line, “I have come on the wings of a raven”, and learning later the words referred to a “mishap” at the base.