Thursday 17 July 2008

When you've got go, you've got to go...

... but how and when you do it has become a matter for heated debate. The Department of Health's new strategy for England now gives adults a choice.

Wednesday 16 July 2008

Make do and mend...


During these days of rising costs and the so-called credit crunch there's a growing trend to "make do and mend". Our wartime collection can teach us a lot about making do, growing our own veg., and generally stretching meagre resources that little bit further. Our website Propaganda: a weapon of war has lots of information on these publications.

Childhood memories



I found the following little gem while dealing with an enquiry relating to free orange juice for children in the early fifties. Being a child of that era it brought back lots of happy memories. Cod liver oil was also provided to combat rickets.
Kids of today would have a problem relating to the typical menu as shown, "but it did me no harm"!!!