[shillelagh]

My dad worked in Liverpool during the war in the factories there. He was a reserved occupation - he was a farmer in Northern Ireland. And my aunt served in the WAAFs over here she was from Northern Ireland as well. She stayed over here and met my uncle and married him. My dad went home and met my mum.

My mums story of her war was different - she was in Northern Ireland and lived on a farm. She was a smuggler! She used to get on her bike and ride over the border into Eire and come back with stuff. The stories she told me about her smuggling.

They are all dead now and there are times now i wish that i'd written their stories down when they were alive.