We managed and that was it.  I think we had always been a pretty careful family.  Of course Dad always had the garden going; he never wasted any bits of garden.  He used to grow everything.  His favourite was growing onions.  He still had his little boat and eventually you could use it up the river, but first of all you couldn’t.  The RASC had one of these boats anchored – just for living in – he used to go up round there and got in with them, and take them up onions and if he had any other veg.  He got well in with them and eventually I think they let him go just out off the pier fishing.  Phil Kelsey b 1920