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Liz Barrett interviewed by Becky Kendall at the Guille-Alles Library 5/2/2005. Recording transcribed by John David.
Liz Barret was seven when the Island was occupied.

I………. Do you remember being hungry as a child?
No, I don’t remember that. Other children might have said it, but I don’t remember that. My mother was always making things out of all sorts of stuff, you know. My mother was a very good cook, and she was cooking anything, so a steamed pudding with carrots and stuff like that would stick to the roof of your mouth, it gets on to the [ ] and we were doing this as well.
Its amazing the kind of things that she did cook, and they’d crush down maize, like sweet corn, really, it would be crushed down, and they'd use it as flour, it used to give you a funny sort of sting in your throat, that’s what we ate, when you were eating it it wasn’t all that wonderful, we’d eat things like this, and my father would get crabs from the beach, when in season, they’d probably say we were hungry, my parents, because they thought they weren’t giving us enough, but I can’t remember being hungry. My brother can remember being hungry, but I can’t remember.
We were healthy, and this lady asked us would we like to help pick strawberries or beans or something we’d always say yes, because we could eat some at the same time.

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