A day at the seaside in the 1940s

The first week I met my husband Don at the Farm Camp six of us decided at the weekend to go in Don's car to Littlehampton.  We went first to the funfair - Don and me, Ken and Irene (one of the cooks) and my friend Marion and Don's friend Arthur.  Arthur was on the small side whereas Marion was what is known as "a fine figure of a girl". We all went on the Caterpillar Ride.  This consisted of a circle of very small cars each holding two people.  Arthur and Marion shared a car.  During the very fast ride the cars moved up and down and tilted from side to side tipping the riders against one another and a green roof came down over the cars.  We all got off rather breathlessly, and Ken said "shall we have another go".  "No thanks," said Arthur forcefully. "Let's try something else."

During the War King Haakon of Norway took refuge in Britain.  He was invited to speak to his people at Bush House on the World Service radio.  A programme was drawn up with notes to the sound engineer to start the programme with a fanfare.  Imagine everyone's surprise (including the King's) to hear music and a raucous voice calling "Roll up, roll up, sixpence to see the fat lady".  The sound engineer said "I thought it said 'FUNFAIR'".