Comments on: Day 51: Goodbye, Little Digger https://deancourtcc.org.uk/articles/2013/07/day-51-goodbye-little-digger/ Growing our community Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:54:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: priscillawaugh https://deancourtcc.org.uk/articles/2013/07/day-51-goodbye-little-digger/#comment-60 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:54:07 +0000 http://deancourtcc.org.uk/?p=681#comment-60 In reply to Jeannine Hammersley.

All true. It’s also used as a mark of friendship in NZ (and perhaps Australia?) akin to “Mate”. My claim to friendship with EXO 92 is a bit fanciful, because Graham kept him under such close supervision, but he (they!) did a great job on the site. Of course (she said shamelessly) you can read about the Diggers and the Levellers in the excellent book “Searching the Thames” by . . . let me think now . . . oh, yes! Denis and Priscilla Waugh

]]> By: Jeannine Hammersley https://deancourtcc.org.uk/articles/2013/07/day-51-goodbye-little-digger/#comment-59 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:07:38 +0000 http://deancourtcc.org.uk/?p=681#comment-59 A ‘little digger’ sounds like a short Australian or NZ soldier who has seen service (Wikipedia adds the NZ so it must be true, although I had thought it was only the Aussies).

Actually, Wikipedia also says: The Diggers were a group of Protestant English agrarian communists,[begun by Gerrard Winstanley as True Levellers in 1649, who became known as Diggers, because of their attempts to farm on common land.

The latter is possibly slightly more apropos.

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