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The war went on from when I was six to when I was twelve. There are lots of little funny stories I remember. I never really was scared; the war was actually quite exiting.
I remember when I was six en the war just started it was the middle of the night and I had woken up. I looked across at my clock and saw that it said made in Germany on it, this was always a great comfort to me as if ever I felt scared I would think about my clock with made in Germany on it was a great comfort to me as I thought that if ever a German solider came I would say I have a clock that was made in Germany and they wouldn’t hurt me.
We had a air raid shelter in the garden and during the day me and my friends would use it as a dolls house.
Jewellery was very had to get so everyone in the village used to use acorns. My mother had always told me that if ever I was out on my own and I saw an aeroplane I should lie down on the ground. I remember one day me and my friend were in the next village and we heard a noise above us so we lay face down on the pavement. I never did find out if it was a bomber plane. Because the war went on for six years things that were very hard to get wore out like sheets. I remember that when I sheet wore out we would get the sid3e bits that hung down the edge of the bed and sowed them in the middle it worked well but near the end of the wore there always seemed to be a ridge in the middle of the sheet.
My mum made me an apron out of my dad’s old shirt and one day I answered the door and it was a friend of mine the first thing she said to me was ‘hey you’re wearing an apron made out of your dads shirt’ I was so embarrassed and I never wore the shirt again.
once I was in town when it was raining and I remember seeing loads of ladies walking around with dripping legs because they had covered there legs with gravy or coco powder and the water was making it run. Sometimes if there was a old broken parachute villagers would be given some to make blouses out of. Problely one of the funniest stories I remember was the cake story. Butter was rationed and we were only alould 50g’s of butter a week so people in the town found out that in cakes liquid paraffin worked really well so for a few days everyone had loads of cakes until everyone got the runs because liquid paraffin was used to treat people with conception !!!!! i lived near a centre for italian captives and near the end of the war people the captives were aloud out. People new that the captives werent bad people and so the villagers often invited them for tea

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