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Home on the Farm

My sister and I stayed at home during the war we took the place of the farm workers that were called to join the forces. It was hand milking and we arose at 6a.m. My sister fetched the cows for milking, we had 5 or 6 each to milk before going into breakfast, then whatever was to do in the fields, we had to help. I worked with the horses, and made the hay and built wagonloads of corn sheaves. We cut and packed Cauliflower and Cabbage for the markets. We got no holidays and had cycles to go to dances as petrol was rationed. We had coupons for Rations and sweets and clothes. We had soldiers camped on the farm, in the fields, my sister used to darn socks for them. She was only 3 陆 years older. I was only 15 in (44) and they gave us sweets and chocolate.
My father he used to race pigeons, but they all had to be killed, as we were not allowed any food for them, he was also in the Home Guard.
We were fortunate as we had chickens we could kill, plenty of eggs, milk and cream.
There were some bombs dropped about a mile away on another farm.

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