At least we don't go back quite as far as WW1 / 2 Lyn - just feels like it some days !
Speak for yourself Phillippa! I am a WW2 baby and remember rationing. The excitement of taking the coupons to the local shop each week to choose which sweets I would have! And the howls and tears one week when I lost mine on the way to the shop. My parents used to go without their sweets and give my sister and me, their sweet rations.
Speak for yourself Phillippa! I am a WW2 baby and remember rationing. The excitement of taking the coupons to the local shop each week to choose which sweets I would have! And the howls and tears one week when I lost mine on the way to the shop. My parents used to go without their sweets and give my sister and me, their sweet rations.
I'm obviously too young to do the competition then Joyce - quite a relief actually OH might qualify tho as he remembers quite clearly a doodlebug landing in his village and having shrapnel ( ? ) damaging the conservatory and blowing a hole in his bedroom wall. He also remembers being hauled into the air raid shelter a number of times.
Just to reassure @war garden 572, this could be said to be related to Veg growing as OH lived in the Lea Valley and his father grew Cucumbers and Tomatoes in summer and Chrysanths in summer
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Still, as mentioned above, here in good old England, we’re 50 years out of date with veg growing, so experience obviously means nothing.
Just to reassure @war garden 572, this could be said to be related to Veg growing as OH lived in the Lea Valley and his father grew Cucumbers and Tomatoes in summer and Chrysanths in summer