- Contributed by听
- Doreensouthside
- People in story:听
- Noel Rutherford, Doreen Rutherford, Willy Fenwick, Nelly Fenwick, Snooks Rutherford, Jack Rutherford
- Location of story:听
- Northumberland
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4752597
- Contributed on:听
- 04 August 2005
Making Hay
This is what you call making hay while the sun shines!
The young man in the photo is Noel Rutherford, later to becaome my brother-in-law.Then next is me, Doreen Rutherford, then Willy Fenwick, a very shy man. He and his sister, Nelly, never married. Together they ran the farm.
I met my lovely husband, Snooks, in the cow shed, while I was milking a cow, when he came home from Italy very badly wounded. After the war, we were married for 48 years.
Next in the picture is Jack Rutherford, later to become my father-in-law. Jack always had a pocketful of Black Bullets [unwrapped peppermint sweets renowned in the North East]. He also smoked a pipe, so the Black Bullets weren't always hygienic. He used to offer the sweets to everyone and say, "Just suck the muck off them and spit it out; they will be all right"!
You didn't get many sweets when the war was on, so Jack's Black Bullets were a bit of a treat.
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