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There was a real fear of invasion on this east coast. We feel sure there was one attempt near Shingle Street, which was hushed up. My dad heard about it at work and we also heard about it elsewhere. My dad was reading the paper one weekend and read how Hitler wanted to make a super Arian race with his fair haired German men and fair haired girls from the countries that they invaded. They had taken the girls away from home just to breed. My dad always favoured me as I was fair haired like his sisters. When he read the  Celebrity Dresses UK Sale  news item about the Arian race he said "we don't want those so and sos coming here. They'll take our gel away". My daughter has found in recent years that a lot of people further north in Suffolk had the same fear.

When we started going regularly to dances, the Americans were here by then and we were told by friends we could go to their dances. They sent big trucks into Ipswich and there'd be several every night pleading with you to go to their dances. We went to the airfields all over Suffolk and they treated us so well and made special batches of doughnuts as they knew we didn't have much cake. We enhanced our Jitterbug skills and I had one partner who could lift me up on both his hips and through his legs - it was great fun. Of course, they wanted a snogging session afterwards but were disappointed. My friend Paddy had one drink and was off to some corner with a GI. Being her good friend I went looking for her and told the Yank she had to go home. I was often sworn at and told "she doesn't want to go" but I said "no, but tomorrow she'll be glad she went". There were thousands of girls quite willing to please them and we were very young and didn't want babies.

In the 40s the white Americans were Junior Bridesmaid Dresses  quite horrible to the black men and used to belittle them by called them "boy" and that would start a fight. It got so bad at that time that it was arranged that the black Americans would come into Ipswich one night and the white Americans another night.

Bombs and rockets were still falling in London and my dad's sisters lived in Clapham and his nephew's family lived in Balham. Mum got a letter to say please could mothers and children come and stay to get some sleep as they were exhausted. They were leaving the men folk behind to work. Our Uncle Tom was a tram driver and he'd be driving along in the black out and suddenly come to a great hole in the road, made by the bombs or mines. He would pull up and say "sorry folks, you'll have to walk from here". My cousin Alf was a lorry driver working nights for Carter Paterson. He used to drive the lorry with a mate down into Surrey and the Home Counties, to RAF bases knowing they had explosives onboard, with bombs dropping, guns going off and searchlights lighting up a long way around them. Luckily he survived the war.

The women and children came by train to stay with us and there were at least five aunts, cousins and babies - we had beds everywhere. Mum was a very good cook and it was said she could make a good Bridesmaid Dresses 2012  meal out of next to nothing. She made jam out of everything so that helped a lot. If the women could get a piece of very fat meat, they would cook it until all the fat came out and then save the dripping. That went into sandwiches and cakes and was used for frying. When all the women stayed with us we had a very happy time. Mum had bought a cheap piano for Doreen and our cousin Beat could play anything 'by ear'. We had great sing-songs and made musical instruments out of a comb and silver paper and also two saucepan lids which were banged together. It was great fun and if the men folk could get a few days off they would come down too. They used to say we made so much noise we would frighten the Germans away.