I just love the little train running under your tree! And I still love the look of paper chains. Mum used to buy packs of cut and gummed papers for us to make the chains with. Where did she buy them? Woolworths! Woolworths was a great shop. All my early records came from Woolworths. I think less people were alone on Christmas Day than you think. Families were closer back then and they lived much closer together. Mum's maternal family were all still living in the same areas of central Coventry during the war, so even if the men were absent, the women were regularly together with the children. My nan lived in the same street as 2 of her sisters and walking distance of her brother and another sister. Only one sister required a bus. Their mother lived in the street too, with one of her daughters. There was much mingling and sharing of rations to make special things. Apparently the street would save up butter and sugar, eggs and fruits if there were to be a wedding and a cake was needed and my nan was the one who baked them. They mixed the cream off the top of the milk (before homogenisation) with the butter to stretch it. They helped each other more than we do now. Grandad was too old to fight in the Second World War. He'd been in the trenches in WW1. He was quite a bit older than nan. He was an ARP warden on duty the night the cathedral burned down, but he was on the roof of a neighbouring church waiting and watching for incendiary bombs to put out. He watched the cathedral go. These things were monumental to the people and they coped by being together as much as possible. Neighbours were in and out of each others houses regularly. No one locked the doors. Mum remembers the first time she saw a banana after the war. An American GI was auctioning it off at the summer fete. She always had an orange and a few nuts in her stocking and typically a new set of colouring pencils and a colouring book and always a Rupert annual. I have 2 wartime Rupert annuals. Printed on economy paper with economy ink processes.
Our Woolworths closed down in 2008-2009. Most UK residents remember them and I even have odd cards of buttons, sewing thread and elastic with Woolworths on the label. All our Chritmas decorations ad a lot of gardening plants came from there ad when I was small. I used to buy tiny dolls which I tried to cut out clothes for.
Woolworth's began in America in 1879. It spread to Mexico, Germany, the UK, Ireland, and Cyprus. Of those, only the Mexican and German ones are still in business. There are unrelated Woolworth's in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
This is a much more honest Christmas, Celebrating family in a simple caring way. Personally I prefer this small caring gathering rather than today's over the top version
I was born in the mid 50's. When I was 3, my Uncle Jack lost his job. They usually spoiled me, but with no money, he thought long and hard about what he could make me for Christmas. I loved my dolls, so he made a doll's bed like the one you showed! Mine was larger and made out of an upside down tomato crate, which were made of wood in those days, not a cigarette box. I absolutely loved it! My Aunty had made some beautiful sheets and blankets. My parents were children during the War. My Mum was one of 8 children, the 2 oldest brothers served in the Army, so there were 6 kids to keep safe. They only had a yard, so no room for an Anderson shelter. They had a Morrison shelter which doubled up as a kitchen table. They didn't all fit, so some of the kids slept in the cupboard under the stairs! Mum's wartime Christmas presents was nuts, and orange and one small toy. She remembered one year she got a yoyo, and another year it was a whip and top. They wore Christmas hats made of newspaper and had rabbit for Christmas dinner!
These tales remind me a bit more of my family's stories of the Great Depression rather than the war. Meat became unavailable in a hurry, so they thought they would rely on hunting. All the deer were hunted to extinction in my family's area rather quickly. They had to turn to hunting raccoons and opossums--and even that became undependable in short order. I remember hearing tales about how they felt lucky if they could get hold of a bag of chicken feed. They would dump it out on the dining room table, and the whole family would sit around the table and sift out what was edible for humans.
Your video actually brought me to tears thinking about those alone over the holiday season. Sending prayers and gratitude for my tiny family and the prime rib potatoes and veggies that I’m planning for dinner as I’m scrolling TH-cam for the best recipes.
What a beautiful tribute to a generation of men and women who fought to give us a free world. I am an American and it never ceases to amaze me of their indomitable spirit! Thank you for sharing!!
What a lovely posting. I feel like having a Christmas surrounded with my husband and children. I'm feeling so unsettled about what's ahead in the U.S. I just want what's important.
We were still making paper chains in the 60's, we used the same decorations for years, maybe replacing one of the most tatty ones each year. I still have a decoration that my Nan used to hang on her tree, it's about 100 yrs old now, and goes on my tree every year.
I love the idea of a simple homemade Christmas, there's a certain charm to them. I honestly think Christmas is becoming too commercial. People seem to be forgetting the true meaning of Christmas.
My dad was stationed in Horham, England and flew with the first daylight bombing raid over Berlin. The towns people often tried to give the US guys baked goods and sweets but they were refused as the servicemen knew how everything those folks had was rationed. When they received care packages from home, they often gave them to the people of Horham. He spoke of those times but never spoke of the bombing missions. He was very fond of the people of Horham.
As an American I have always been fascinated with war time Britain and how strong they were. I used to love watching the Back in Time series, Back in Time for Christmas was my favorite until I lost the ability to watch it here in the states!
I'm loving your videos 😊 I remember those paper chains & bells so we'll in the late 60,s early 70s I loved making the paper chains , really enjoyed watching ❤
The lights on our tree were real tiny candles in holders held on with little metal clasps. Can you imagine what health and safety experts would think of that now ! A flammable fir with naked flames !
What a wonderful video! I love all the information tidbits you tuck in. Watching your videos is like stepping back in time. Watch out with tinsel around your sweet cat- they can be very dangerous in their digestive systems if they eat it.
My father and all of my uncles served in the U. S. military during WW2. I never heard any stories of any of them being quartered in private homes. However, my father had a "girlfriend" (I don't think it was really a romance--more like two lonely people being friends in hard times) in Antwerp, and he spent a lot of time with her and her family in their home. When I was 17, my father took me to Europe. While in Antwerp, we walked past a movie theater called the Rex Cinema. My father pointed it out too me, as if he were expecting the name "Rex Cinema" to be as familiar to me as "Pearl Harbor." I was clueless. He finally said, "I was gonna go to a movie there once...but then I didn't." I later learned that the first V2 to hit Antwerp hit the Rex Cinema and killed hundreds of people on the first day of the Battle of the Bulge. My father and my uncles often complained of the frequency with which the American military served them something they called "S. O. S." at mealtime. My father once had the opportunity to sample horse meat in Antwerp. He didn't like it--he said it was too stringy. (Horse meat is something you will not encounter in America.) My uncle's unit was once in some situation where they were being fed by the British military for a month. They fed them mutton for every meal. My uncle said he just about cried every time he went to the mess hall, only to be greeted by the sight of mutton once again. (Mutton is also near-impossible to find in America.)
I'm in Michigan and The Henry Ford does a Holiday Nights celebration in Greenfield Village every year. One of my favorite homes is the Cotswold Cottage that Herny Ford had brought over from England. They decorate and portray the cottage like soldiers are staying there during WWII.
Thank you for the video. I'm doing my tree this evening. BTW, those large ornaments look like blow mold ornaments, which would make them 50's. They are wonderful.
Even when I was a little girl in the early 60's we had oranges or tangerines only at Christmas. We'd find one in the toe of our stockings. Did you know that it takes - even today - 6 to 9 months for citrus fruit to ripen? I found this out only this year when I started to grow my own citrus trees. So i think that has something to do with how special citrus was at Christmas
Thank you so much for making this and sharing. It was very meaningful and educational for me. Although I was born much later than the 40's, I feel a strong sense of ties to that particular time in history, like I was born in the wrong era. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas 🎄❤💚
The only Grandmother and Pa I had ,and Mom and Dad lived through those days here in the U.S. Mom and Dad would have been 9 and 11 yrs.old. So Mom remembered still being poor in her young years,things didn't get much better til after Dad got out of the Navy, and they married as teenagers in 1950. Many Christmases consisted of trees cut in the woods,decorated with paper ornaments,maybe popcorn or paper chains,berries and sugar cookies. I still remember trees without lights in the 1960's,and those messy aluminum tinsels.🎄 Times have been hard many times and they will be again. It's the way of the world,unfortunately. It does bring 😢to think of all the sadness that came before us. Let's be happy knowing they are out of it now and it was all for us, things could be worse. Merry Christmas. You're a sweet person.✨
My parents were born in the early 1920's, and my grandparents were born in the 1890's. To hear them talk about the past, even the good times sounded pretty grim. I remember almost no mention of the Christmases that happened before I was born--and when my grandparents and parents were still alive, I was too dumb to ask questions when something actually was mentioned. My grandmother once said something about my grandfather dressing up like Santa in the 1920's. I couldn't imagine my own father doing something like that in the 1960's or 1970's--that would've seemed like too much of an extravagance. For it to have happened in the 1920's really blows my mind.
22.03. This was so interesting and enjoyable. I remember making paper chains in the 1960's...and also having the paper bells as decorations. We also had an old cooker similar to yours...totally fascinating. Thank-you for this, and Merry Christmas. Xx
I wish my mum was still alive so I could ask her things I never thought of before - she didn't talk too much about the war; she was 15 in 1940 and experienced the Blitz first hand, oh she was also a Home Guard? anyway she had a pith helmet and when we had a fire in our own home she jumped right into action in a way I didn't know she possessed. Now my father was in for the duration, he joined when he was 18 in '38 and was discharged (honourably) in April of '45 - I still have his red army book and he was at Dunkirk and overseas in Africa, Italy and all sorts of crazy places...both of them never spoke much about it, I still have my grandmothers cook books and "Make Do and Mend" books. On the covers of these she had written in fountain pen "Cook Books - Do Not Burn" in case their home was bombed or the Nazis invaded...we always had paper chains and those Bells that opened and were like honeycomb ...as I'm 69 now there is so much I"ve forgotten....but you have brought this all back to me...I want to cry but thanx for this! ♥ Merry Christmas to you and your family! ♥
my dad who died in 1984 was in the Burma Campaign in ww2❤ Mum worked in pop hams department Store in the Restaurant dad was born 1916 mum was born 1923 died April 2000 ❤
My parents were born in the early 1920's, and my grandparents were born in the 1890's. To hear them talk about the past, even the good times sounded pretty grim. I remember almost no mention of the Christmases that happened before I was born--and when my grandparents and parents were still alive, I was too dumb to ask questions when something actually was mentioned. My family also didn't want to discuss hard times like the depression or the war too much, especially when they were younger. Their tongues loosened up a bit starting in the late 1970's, but I was still too reticent to start asking probing questions--and now it's too late.
I like uour videos very authentic my self i like the forties fashion pencil skirts fitted dresses and sockings that was me in the seventies just found your channel will be binge watch them
The King's annual Christmas message on the radio started in 1932 when George V was king. George VI's first one was in 1937 (there wasn't one in 1936 due to the recent abdication of Edward VIII).
Woolworth's, Murphy's here in U.S. They became Woolco and Murphy's Mart in the late 70's early 80's and by mid '90's were gone. Have my mother's Nativity from G.C. Murphy's made in the 1940's Chalkware, hand painted, made in Italy. ❤
This is probably a really dumb question but do you go to the Twinwood festival.? I am sure you do. Would be nice if you done a video about that. Be good to let your audiance know about it.Happy xmas from another 1940's person at heart !
Sorry to nit-pick, but I was disappointed to see you poring water onto a teabag in a cup! It should be a pot, loose tea spooned into a warmed teapot and a knitted cosy, I still do my tea like that.
When I was a broke student in the nineties we made paperchains out of free magazines. They were very effective. And free - vital!
❤ love taking the step back in time with you
I just love the little train running under your tree! And I still love the look of paper chains. Mum used to buy packs of cut and gummed papers for us to make the chains with. Where did she buy them? Woolworths! Woolworths was a great shop. All my early records came from Woolworths.
I think less people were alone on Christmas Day than you think. Families were closer back then and they lived much closer together. Mum's maternal family were all still living in the same areas of central Coventry during the war, so even if the men were absent, the women were regularly together with the children. My nan lived in the same street as 2 of her sisters and walking distance of her brother and another sister. Only one sister required a bus. Their mother lived in the street too, with one of her daughters. There was much mingling and sharing of rations to make special things. Apparently the street would save up butter and sugar, eggs and fruits if there were to be a wedding and a cake was needed and my nan was the one who baked them. They mixed the cream off the top of the milk (before homogenisation) with the butter to stretch it. They helped each other more than we do now.
Grandad was too old to fight in the Second World War. He'd been in the trenches in WW1. He was quite a bit older than nan. He was an ARP warden on duty the night the cathedral burned down, but he was on the roof of a neighbouring church waiting and watching for incendiary bombs to put out. He watched the cathedral go. These things were monumental to the people and they coped by being together as much as possible. Neighbours were in and out of each others houses regularly. No one locked the doors.
Mum remembers the first time she saw a banana after the war. An American GI was auctioning it off at the summer fete. She always had an orange and a few nuts in her stocking and typically a new set of colouring pencils and a colouring book and always a Rupert annual. I have 2 wartime Rupert annuals. Printed on economy paper with economy ink processes.
Also, I didnt know Woolworth's was in the UK too...I thought that was an American thing! Love learning new things!
Our Woolworths closed down in 2008-2009. Most UK residents remember them and I even have odd cards of buttons, sewing thread and elastic with Woolworths on the label. All our Chritmas decorations ad a lot of gardening plants came from there ad when I was small. I used to buy tiny dolls which I tried to cut out clothes for.
We still have them in Australia 😊
Woolworth's began in America in 1879. It spread to Mexico, Germany, the UK, Ireland, and Cyprus. Of those, only the Mexican and German ones are still in business. There are unrelated Woolworth's in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
I have to admit that in my household in Central Bosnia, preparations for Christmas pretty much look like yours: similar interior, same cookware, etc.
I can remember making paper chains in school in the 1950s, then we could take them home to decorate our living room ready for xmas. Happy memories
We did in the 60s too
@@sarahprice1375 And in the 1970's!
This is a much more honest Christmas, Celebrating family in a simple caring way.
Personally I prefer this small caring gathering rather than today's over the top version
I was born in the mid 50's. When I was 3, my Uncle Jack lost his job. They usually spoiled me, but with no money, he thought long and hard about what he could make me for Christmas. I loved my dolls, so he made a doll's bed like the one you showed! Mine was larger and made out of an upside down tomato crate, which were made of wood in those days, not a cigarette box. I absolutely loved it! My Aunty had made some beautiful sheets and blankets. My parents were children during the War. My Mum was one of 8 children, the 2 oldest brothers served in the Army, so there were 6 kids to keep safe. They only had a yard, so no room for an Anderson shelter. They had a Morrison shelter which doubled up as a kitchen table. They didn't all fit, so some of the kids slept in the cupboard under the stairs! Mum's wartime Christmas presents was nuts, and orange and one small toy. She remembered one year she got a yoyo, and another year it was a whip and top. They wore Christmas hats made of newspaper and had rabbit for Christmas dinner!
These tales remind me a bit more of my family's stories of the Great Depression rather than the war. Meat became unavailable in a hurry, so they thought they would rely on hunting. All the deer were hunted to extinction in my family's area rather quickly. They had to turn to hunting raccoons and opossums--and even that became undependable in short order.
I remember hearing tales about how they felt lucky if they could get hold of a bag of chicken feed. They would dump it out on the dining room table, and the whole family would sit around the table and sift out what was edible for humans.
Your video actually brought me to tears thinking about those alone over the holiday season. Sending prayers and gratitude for my tiny family and the prime rib potatoes and veggies that I’m planning for dinner as I’m scrolling TH-cam for the best recipes.
What a beautiful tribute to a generation of men and women who fought to give us a free world. I am an American and it never ceases to amaze me of their indomitable spirit! Thank you for sharing!!
Personally the kings speech just makes me so emotional.
What a lovely posting. I feel like having a Christmas surrounded with my husband and children. I'm feeling so unsettled about what's ahead in the U.S. I just want what's important.
What’s ahead in the U.S? 😢
❤ cherish the time ❤ww3 is coming suddenly ❤
i am a widow here in the Uk 7 years this year i will see no one ❤❤❤❤
Praying for you all in America, God bless.
@Glory3823 I'm so sorry to hear you will be alone, I'll think of you, and send my best wishes to you on Christmas morning, God bless x.
@@joanmatchett8100Thank you God Bless you ❤
There's a place called Eden Camp which is about war time and it has some prefab houses I think from that period.
Enjoyed this, thank you.
Very poignant and meaningful words at the end of the video. Thankfulness, love and gratitude will endure, no matter what.
We were still making paper chains in the 60's, we used the same decorations for years, maybe replacing one of the most tatty ones each year. I still have a decoration that my Nan used to hang on her tree, it's about 100 yrs old now, and goes on my tree every year.
This was really well done and beautiful. Thank you for working so hard on it and sharing it. ❤️
I love the idea of a simple homemade Christmas, there's a certain charm to them. I honestly think Christmas is becoming too commercial. People seem to be forgetting the true meaning of Christmas.
My dad was stationed in Horham, England and flew with the first daylight bombing raid over Berlin. The towns people often tried to give the US guys baked goods and sweets but they were refused as the servicemen knew how everything those folks had was rationed. When they received care packages from home, they often gave them to the people of Horham. He spoke of those times but never spoke of the bombing missions. He was very fond of the people of Horham.
I love ‘in which we serve’ and ‘this happy breed’, also Mrs Miniver, all Great War films ❤
Can't wait to watch this x
so Remember making paper Chains in the 60s n 70s they were fun ❤❤
I was born in the 70's and still make them each year with my children lol
As an American I have always been fascinated with war time Britain and how strong they were. I used to love watching the Back in Time series, Back in Time for Christmas was my favorite until I lost the ability to watch it here in the states!
I remember making paper chains in the 70s!
Me too!
I'm loving your videos 😊 I remember those paper chains & bells so we'll in the late 60,s early 70s I loved making the paper chains , really enjoyed watching ❤
The lights on our tree were real tiny candles in holders held on with little metal clasps. Can you imagine what health and safety experts would think of that now ! A flammable fir with naked flames !
Dont know what to say except just lovely ❤
What a wonderful video! I love all the information tidbits you tuck in. Watching your videos is like stepping back in time.
Watch out with tinsel around your sweet cat- they can be very dangerous in their digestive systems if they eat it.
My father and all of my uncles served in the U. S. military during WW2. I never heard any stories of any of them being quartered in private homes. However, my father had a "girlfriend" (I don't think it was really a romance--more like two lonely people being friends in hard times) in Antwerp, and he spent a lot of time with her and her family in their home.
When I was 17, my father took me to Europe. While in Antwerp, we walked past a movie theater called the Rex Cinema. My father pointed it out too me, as if he were expecting the name "Rex Cinema" to be as familiar to me as "Pearl Harbor." I was clueless. He finally said, "I was gonna go to a movie there once...but then I didn't." I later learned that the first V2 to hit Antwerp hit the Rex Cinema and killed hundreds of people on the first day of the Battle of the Bulge.
My father and my uncles often complained of the frequency with which the American military served them something they called "S. O. S." at mealtime. My father once had the opportunity to sample horse meat in Antwerp. He didn't like it--he said it was too stringy. (Horse meat is something you will not encounter in America.) My uncle's unit was once in some situation where they were being fed by the British military for a month. They fed them mutton for every meal. My uncle said he just about cried every time he went to the mess hall, only to be greeted by the sight of mutton once again. (Mutton is also near-impossible to find in America.)
My grandmother wrapped our presents in the comics, even in the 1970’s and 80’s.
I'm in Michigan and The Henry Ford does a Holiday Nights celebration in Greenfield Village every year. One of my favorite homes is the Cotswold Cottage that Herny Ford had brought over from England. They decorate and portray the cottage like soldiers are staying there during WWII.
I had not heard about the tinsel before. New respect for it as a decoration!
What a lovely video. Thanks for sharing what people went thru.
Thank you for the video. I'm doing my tree this evening. BTW, those large ornaments look like blow mold ornaments, which would make them 50's. They are wonderful.
Just immersed myself into the 1940 Christmas thank you ❤
Lovely video❤. Very well done.😇🌲🌲🌲🥀Merry Christmas.
Even when I was a little girl in the early 60's we had oranges or tangerines only at Christmas. We'd find one in the toe of our stockings. Did you know that it takes - even today - 6 to 9 months for citrus fruit to ripen? I found this out only this year when I started to grow my own citrus trees. So i think that has something to do with how special citrus was at Christmas
Thank you so much for making this and sharing. It was very meaningful and educational for me. Although I was born much later than the 40's, I feel a strong sense of ties to that particular time in history, like I was born in the wrong era. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas 🎄❤💚
The only Grandmother and Pa I had ,and Mom and Dad lived through those days here in the U.S. Mom and Dad would have been 9 and 11 yrs.old. So Mom remembered still being poor in her young years,things didn't get much better til after Dad got out of the Navy, and they married as teenagers in 1950. Many Christmases consisted of trees cut in the woods,decorated with paper ornaments,maybe popcorn or paper chains,berries and sugar cookies. I still remember trees without lights in the 1960's,and those messy aluminum tinsels.🎄 Times have been hard many times and they will be again. It's the way of the world,unfortunately. It does bring 😢to think of all the sadness that came before us. Let's be happy knowing they are out of it now and it was all for us, things could be worse. Merry Christmas. You're a sweet person.✨
My parents were born in the early 1920's, and my grandparents were born in the 1890's. To hear them talk about the past, even the good times sounded pretty grim. I remember almost no mention of the Christmases that happened before I was born--and when my grandparents and parents were still alive, I was too dumb to ask questions when something actually was mentioned.
My grandmother once said something about my grandfather dressing up like Santa in the 1920's. I couldn't imagine my own father doing something like that in the 1960's or 1970's--that would've seemed like too much of an extravagance. For it to have happened in the 1920's really blows my mind.
22.03. This was so interesting and enjoyable. I remember making paper chains in the 1960's...and also having the paper bells as decorations. We also had an old cooker similar to yours...totally fascinating. Thank-you for this, and Merry Christmas. Xx
I love your videos, thank you for making them.
Loved this video!!!
Really lovely, informative video x
Thank you for this beautiful festive nostalgic video😊
Such a lovely video 😊
I remember making paper chains at my Grandparents farm... No sellotape for me though, it was a flour and water paste "glue"... xx
This is amazing!
Very interessant
I wish my mum was still alive so I could ask her things I never thought of before - she didn't talk too much about the war; she was 15 in 1940 and experienced the Blitz first hand, oh she was also a Home Guard? anyway she had a pith helmet and when we had a fire in our own home she jumped right into action in a way I didn't know she possessed. Now my father was in for the duration, he joined when he was 18 in '38 and was discharged (honourably) in April of '45 - I still have his red army book and he was at Dunkirk and overseas in Africa, Italy and all sorts of crazy places...both of them never spoke much about it, I still have my grandmothers cook books and "Make Do and Mend" books. On the covers of these she had written in fountain pen "Cook Books - Do Not Burn" in case their home was bombed or the Nazis invaded...we always had paper chains and those Bells that opened and were like honeycomb ...as I'm 69 now there is so much I"ve forgotten....but you have brought this all back to me...I want to cry but thanx for this! ♥ Merry Christmas to you and your family! ♥
What beautiful but sad memories. I'm glad you still have her things, even if you don't have her stories.
my dad who died in 1984 was in the Burma Campaign in ww2❤
Mum worked in pop hams department Store in the Restaurant dad was born 1916
mum was born 1923 died April 2000 ❤
My parents were born in the early 1920's, and my grandparents were born in the 1890's. To hear them talk about the past, even the good times sounded pretty grim. I remember almost no mention of the Christmases that happened before I was born--and when my grandparents and parents were still alive, I was too dumb to ask questions when something actually was mentioned.
My family also didn't want to discuss hard times like the depression or the war too much, especially when they were younger. Their tongues loosened up a bit starting in the late 1970's, but I was still too reticent to start asking probing questions--and now it's too late.
Love your videos ❤
I like uour videos very authentic my self i like the forties fashion pencil skirts fitted dresses and sockings that was me in the seventies just found your channel will be binge watch them
What an amazing video ❤❤❤❤
The King's annual Christmas message on the radio started in 1932 when George V was king. George VI's first one was in 1937 (there wasn't one in 1936 due to the recent abdication of Edward VIII).
Thumbs 👍 very interesting
Woolworth's, Murphy's here in U.S.
They became Woolco and Murphy's Mart in the late 70's early 80's and by mid '90's were gone.
Have my mother's Nativity from G.C. Murphy's made in the 1940's
Chalkware, hand painted, made in Italy. ❤
London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes is a book you may like 😊
Another fantastic video Hannah! I would love to know where you got that lovely red skirt! It's perfect for Christmas!
Sending lv Ann 🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
Those rolls of crepe paper they used to twist and hang too!
where did you get your housecoat from, is it woollen
This is probably a really dumb question but do you go to the Twinwood festival.? I am sure you do. Would be nice if you done a video about that. Be good to let your audiance know about it.Happy xmas from another 1940's person at heart !
Ongoing postal strike where I live so no cards or packages posted :(
Crepe paper and tissue paper are two different things.
Those "Christmas" names sound so depressing - "Austerity Christmas"?? It's amazing what they got through.
Sorry to nit-pick, but I was disappointed to see you poring water onto a teabag in a cup! It should be a pot, loose tea spooned into a warmed teapot and a knitted cosy, I still do my tea like that.
Did you use tea leaves or tea bags ?
I don't know if you're single. But I think I quite fancy you. 😉 lol
People are still living Christmas like this think of Ukraine or Gaza.