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"One winter we had lots and lots of snow. We had an oil stove to supplement the heating, and it got down to the last little can of oil for that, I suppose we got by, all go into one room sort of thing. You were wishing for the war to be over. I think it was about, the winter of ’44 I think was very, very cold. Lots of snow. I suppose it must have rained, but I didn’t notice it like you do now. One summer was very, very hot. Of course we had double summertime, two hours ahead. About eleven o’clock at night it was still light. People had an awful job with small children getting them off to sleep. It must have been very difficult, I mean, it was a little war of their own they were having with the children to try and get them to sort of cuddle down and go off to sleep. Very disturbing when they used to have to pick them up and take them to the shelters. And of course, there were the, the underground in London. People used to go there every night and sleep on the platforms. Even when the trains started in the morning people would still be there. I just don’t know how they did it, but I suppose they had to."

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