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I remember your brother [talking to Muriel] used to have a loft of pigeons, and neck them to make pigeon pies — the first horror was seeing them hopping round the field with no head on! He said “It’s alright, it’s only their nerves.” Then the next day I went up and they were hanging upside down by their legs and your Mum said “well, we’ve got to bleed them before we can use the meat” - that was one of the first horrors I witnessed in the countryside!

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the 91�ȱ� Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Mrs Marjorie McMahon and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Marjorie's stories:

• Arms, Legs and Cockroaches
• Frank thoroughly enjoyed it here
• I jumped a five-barred gate without touching it

See also Muriel Edwards’s stories:

• ‘Evacuees’ What are they?
• General De Gaulle was down the road
• They taught us and we taught them

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