The Great War of 1914 – 1918 dragged on and I remember there was a weekly ( or Monthly) magazine called ‘The War Budget’ (not able to find any record of this) which I read avidly without I reckon understanding very much about what was happening. I do recall there were many pictures, some most gruesome. Bill and I looked forward to the Sunday ‘News of the World’ for inside there would be a comic supplement which was quite a treat, Occasionally we would have the ‘ Comic Cuts’ or ‘Chips’ with characters such as Tom Merry and co. Harry Wharton , Billy Bunter etc. We would follow their adventures just as keenly as the children of today watch their tv serials.

My father worked in an ammunition factory at Hayle (Upton Towans) for most of the war years and I remember he came home quite upset for there had been an explosion and some of his workmates had been killed, he cycled to and from work as did almost everyone in those days.
We were living at Tregadjack in 1916, it was quite a nice detached house with an acre of land where Father grew vegetables and kept a large flock of poultry. Then one day at a ‘garden fete’ Granny Toms (Father’s Mother) won a little Berkshire sow on a raffle, of course it was given to my Father and she proved to be most prolific giving birth to over a hundred farrows eventually.