Crafts and Life

A wonderful and gentle look at the horrendous time that was the second world war. Mrs Ruth Mott plays herself and also a lady who has taken in a young mother and her son who are evacuees from a major city, and she shows how people made do with the limited ingredients they had on rations. Harry Dodson had a land army girl working with him in the local large house gardens – these had naturally been given over to food production, most of which was then shipped to cities.