Air raid shelters.
Going out always with gas mask.
Food rationing
Queues at every shop, and saving mums place in queues.
Burning half the furniture in the winter of '47 to keep newborn sister warm, until we got some coal.
Mum doing washing in boiler, with scrubbing board, and using Mangle to get water out.
A wireless.
Outside toilet, with newspaper, or San Izal toilet paper, which was like greaseproof baking paper. (I used it for tracing as well)
Asking American soldiers for chewing gum, or candy. "Got any gum chum!"
A shilling to see the doctor, so you had to be at death's door before getting to see him.
It was hard, but unlike the adults, we kids had never known anything else, so it was just normal to us.
That's why when I saw all the panic buying and shenanigans on display during the Covid Pandemic, I just shook my head, and thought, you lot will never cope if the poop really hits the fan.
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