How did children perceive WW2?

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by Noreen, Dec 14, 2012.

  1. Roy Martin

    Roy Martin Senior Member

    Thinking about my wartime childhood, also born 1936, a few things spring to mind. We collected anything - the foil that the Germans dropped to 'confuse' the radar; an aircraft drop tank - we only ever got one, had we found another one we were going to build a raft and sail it down the river; rosehips for which we got a couple of pennies. We spent more time under the kitchen table than in the shelter. We also had our favourite, and very ireverant (spelling?) version of decorations, the only one I can now remember was DSO - 'Dickie Shot Off'.

    Then there was a poem, Thoughts of a cow on AID:

    I've just given birth to a heifer
    Of pride and milk I am full
    But it's sad to relate
    That my lactual state
    Was not broght about by a bull
    I've never been naughty, I swear it
    Inspite of the calf I have borne
    By farmer Brown's tractor
    I'm virgo intacta
    I've not had the bull by the horn

    Now it shouldn't be said that I'm jealous
    For there are things a cow just should not say
    But those Land Army tarts
    Who handle our parts
    Still get it the old fashioned way

    I must admit I didn't learn that one until 1954, in New Zealand
     
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