A Life in the Day of.....

After the excitement of social applauding the NHS workers with neighbours last night , there was the added excitement of raising our glasses at 3pm today with the same neighbours to commemorate VE Day in 1945. It’s been quite a social whirl these last 2 days but I have another 6 days of lockdown to recover.

I was born at the very start of the war and the first 6 years of my life were spent with blackout, rationing, gas masks and air raid shelters. Now, I think back to how worried my parents must have been and how well my mother coped when my father was called up.
We were lucky as a family as my father came home from the war unscathed and my mother was supported by my grandmother and my 2aunts while he was away.

This pandemic has given people a taster of what my parent’s generation endured, and VE Day an inspiration as to how all horrors can be overcome in the end.

My mission this morning was to find black bananas to make a banana loaf promised to Maggie’s for hungry nurses using the centre while it is shut to the public. I found them and they are huge. They don’t come this big (or black) in Sainsbury’s. I was home in time for the 11am silence and to see Prince Charles laying a wreath at the war memorial in the Balmoral estate.

My day is featured in the blip.