Diary summary week ending 3rd December

[louisa maud]

A little change of subject

We have in our possession  a menu dated XMAS 1943,  it's  the 70th anniversary  this year, it is a prison of war drawing which shows what the prisoner's had for their Christmas dinner, signed by quite a few of the prisoner's,   not counted them,  lots were New Zealand soldiers, also a toast to our King George and others proposed by various known inmates I assume .

My father in law strangely didn't sign this but I want to put it up in pride of place this Christmas in honour of my father in law and other prisoner's as it is an anniversary.

LM

[BumbleB]

LM - it would be very, very interesting to see what the prisoners did have for their Christmas dinner - any chance you could enlighten us, pretty please. 

[louisa maud]

Luncheon
Meat goulash
Mashed potatoes

Dinner
Mash potatoes  and swede
Steak and  kidney and macaroni

Christmas pudding
Cake and biscuits

Coffee and beer

LM

[BumbleB]

Thank you - not bad at all, considering the circumstances. 

ADDED:

Forgot to ask the question - where was this POW camp?

[louisa maud]

Germany , not sure of the number.
 LM

[BumbleB]

Fine, general location was all I needed - WWII did cover a large number of areas!

[louisa maud]

Not sure but it might be in cheq Republic now .

LM

[Viktoria]

How interesting L.M.
My Dad was a P.O.W. in WW1 ,
Cabbage soup and dark Rye bread , he remembered .
Sometimes a parcel from home with something .
There were also some volunteers in UK who through perhaps the Swiss Red Cross got a few things to them.


My mother in law, when her eldest son was doing National Service in 1948, in Germany ,sent him an apple pie ——-not sure how she packed it but it was mouldy by the time he got it ,he never told her - aaaaaw!
 Viktoria.

[Rena]

I think I might  have unknowingly broken a mirror - I've been messing about all through the night trying to get my washing machine to work.  The usual advice of "switch off at the mains for a while then try again" didn't work, the other one that didn't work was choose an alternative programme if the one you originally chose refuses to work. 
I was "off colour" the other day and slept most of the time, this meant that I haven't responded to my GPs request to phone them in order to make a 15 minute phone appointment for my "annual" check

I still have a couple of boxes of unused Xmas cards and I decided I needed to start writing a few.   One box has the usual Merry Xmas design but the other box  is the most unusual card I've ever seen.  It's the usual envelopes and square cards that were popular last year , on the front it has a dog wearing a red & white father Christmas Hat.  On the back of the picture are two sets of lines to write on. One has room for an address I might want to send the card to !!  and space for a message I might want to write.

I had a peculiar experience a couple of days ago.  My mouth became quite dry and I needed a cool drink.   For some reason into my mind popped the fact that I needed to drink Dandelion and Burdock, which I haven't had for years and at one time it was my favourite mineral water.

I was organising myself a drink when my son walked into the house with that day's shopping.   It's a long thirsty walk from the shops up a steep hill  to my home and during the course of his climb he'd drunk two small bottles of Dandelion and Burdock.  oo-er.