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I only knew my grandmother on my mother’s side but even then it was for less than a year. Her husband did not survive WWII and my grand parents on my father’s side died before I was born.

The only picture that I have of my grand parents is of my grandmother on my mother’s side. It was taken in 1947 when she was somewhere around 60.

A lived in face that saw more of the horrors of war than any person has a right to.
But she survived to tell the tale.

Her garden was triangular shaped and quite large. About a quarter of the triangle at the base was the ‘yard’ with outside toilets and a well in the centre. She kept a dozen or so hens in the ‘yard’ so we always had clean water and plenty of eggs.

The rest of the garden contained a few cherry trees, a couple of apple trees, a couple of pear trees, with several black and red current bushes and gooseberry bushes. Tucked into the apex were some 50 sunflowers. A large conker tree was just made to climb and of course I had more conkers than I could ever wish for.

The rest of the garden was for a variety of vegetables.

A sort of forerunner to the “Good Life”.