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The child chef

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cambsaction
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Eric Dent
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Durham
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Civilian
Article ID:听
A7979656
Contributed on:听
22 December 2005

鈥淪ome time ago, the government talked about how terrible it was to be a latchkey child; but that was what I was, at 9 years of age. Both of my parents were called up. My father was serving with the Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders while my mother was working in an RAF factory, in the drawing office, drawing shells and projectiles for the factory that manufactured them. She left at 7.30 in the morning and got home at 7 o鈥檆lock at night. Since I left school at 4 o鈥檆lock, what did I do until 7 at night? So I used to make the meals. There was no fire lit because you couldn鈥檛 leave a fire burning during the day; so when I came in from school, I got on with it and did as much as I could to help Mam. I remember making fritters, with dried egg and spam. I would put the potatoes and carrots on and then made spam fritters or something like that.鈥

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