Saturday, October 28, 2006

bluebell line ... i remember being sent with a book of vouchers to queue for dried milk at the church hall

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5 comments:

Unknown said...

What about dried egg? In brown boxes I recall. Interesting memeories.

tristan said...

my visits to the church hall would have been about 1958-ish, by which time eggs were perhaps no longer rationed

we also collected little bottles of cod-liver oil, and concentrated "orange juice" which was fortified with vitamin c

Unknown said...

I remember the orange juice, and earlier, too early for you I suspect, bottles of rose hip syrup, to keep children healthy in the absence of orange juice (oranges must have been scarce in war time). The orange juice that I recall was concentrated and quite marmeladey.

Who wrote "Close your fizzing eyes ..." I'm still puzzling over it.

tristan said...

its a bit of one of mine written in october 1981-ish

Unknown said...

I reread almost the whole of Autumn Journal because it sounded like Louis MacNeice. It's good.