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My mother some how got her hands on a grey parachute she made a dress for myself and my sister, she trimmed them in bias binding in bands of red, blue, yellow and green, all round the hem and sleeves they looked very pretty and washed fantastic.
My mother used to do a lot of baking and she used to make a ‘nought’ pudding which meant ‘nought on ration’. I think there was syrup in it suet and flour but I can not remember nothing else. All the neighbours used to come for her almond paste recipe, that was ground rice in place of almond and almond essence.
We used to have ‘blind lob scouse’ which was ‘tator pie’ with no meat in it. And steak and onions with no steak. Sweets was always on ration, I could never make my mind up whether I wanted two ounces of cheery lips or two ounces of floral gums. I went to Blackpool the other week and bought two ounces of both but they didn’t quite taste the same.
When the sweets came off ration you couldn’t get near a sweet shops and the shelves ended up empty and they had to put then back on ration. They did eventually come off again. We used to walk 2 miles to a shop run by auntie lotty to get sweets, she was no body’s auntie but that was how we all knew her.

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