“Wakey Brother Monster,” he said to Rose as he spread his replacement piece of toast.

'Come on now, wakey!' called Diane, who was already up and dashing round the room.

Barnsely General? Or are you in that posh private one in Wakey?

Eddie: Alright well I'll steer right clear away from Wakey [Wakefield in West Yorkshire] County Council death squad then.

Yorkshire is a bloody beautiful county. ... there are worse commutes than Manchester to 'Sheff' or 'Wakey' or 'Tarn' across this landscape, past the tough and tender towns and villages: Tintwistle, Edale, Stalybridge, Glossop, Chapel-en-le-Frith and the rest, overlooked by sombre ridges, nestled in those scooped Pennine hollows, dotted by dark, shining reservoirs.

'You beauty, only 364 and a wakey to go,' the countdown had begun and would continue, as few days passed without someone calling the time. I spared a thought for our temporary enemy whose tour would endure to the end of the war[…]

Morale was also usually high, helped by the men's recognition that their service in Vietnam had strict limits – one year, or, to use a soldiers' expression of the time, 364 days and a 'wakey' (the day the men woke to prepare to fly out).

When you became a 'short timer' (20 days and a wakey) you delighted in sticking it up to the new arrivals.

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