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If we found out that the shops had got any sweets, we would go and queue.
We would queue for hours and sometimes when you got to the counter with your penny eveything would be gone.

I remember walking from Earl Shilton to Hinckley to the stores with rationing books for sausages.

For the war effort pigs we did keep,
and when they were killed I didn't sleep for a week,
The butcher he came, the pigs fought a stick,
I closed my eyes tightly and tried not to be sick.

If you kept pigs everybody helped you to feed them, so when they were killed the butcher came and gave you half and took half for the neighbours to share.

There were very few cars so we walked everywhere and went to local beauty spots.
We would take bottled of cold tea with us and sandwiches and play in the hedgerow.
The countryside was there for us to explore.
No-one panicked if you were out all day.
Everyone looked after eachand we felt safe and secure.

You were very inventive in those days.
As girls we would make our own perfume with petals in water.
When th etiny English roses were about we would stick them on to our nails.

The clocks went back for Double British Summertime, so at 11pm it was a slight as it would have been at 9pm.
This was introduced to conserve resources - you didn't need the lights on so early.

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