Now Grandfather cleaned the well out, but what we didn't realise see, it was a spring well you see and it was really for cooling the milk, it was in the cooling house. I've got snaps of our little party on the lawn...that's when we had to put the copper on and that's when we realised what we were drinking. And of course you didn't see the water you were drinking when it was in a kettle - on top of the water it was just like a chocolate scum and of course we had to skim it all off before we dare let anyone come in and see it. So they never really knew what they were drinking and that's when Sam went up to the council and got the water laid on.

An old range in the kitchen and of course we had to fill that with coke. I had to cook on this, it was an...old fashioned black leaded grate which I hadn't been used to, so I made lots of mistakes I'm afraid in my cooking - he was very patient with me really. You see it was wild then, pasture land and we grew lovely mushrooms and he brought these in for me to cook, and I said, 'How do you want them cooking?' and he said, 'In milk.' Of course I didn't realise that you cook them in a drop of milk with butter and I didn't like to ask so I did them in a saucepan of milk, so when he came in for his breakfast I actually gave him this basin with these mushrooms floating on the top...which was hilarious. I had to learn by experience.

I wanted a bit of colour in the garden - it was Grandfather who came and helped us. And of course there were no toilets, there were earth toilets down the garden and we had to go down the garden path at night time with a candle or a lamp. I didn't realise this - he (Grandfather) made a vegetable garden - he grew the most marvellous vegetables, I didn't realise from these 'closets' they call them, and we used to have lovely celery. When I knew what was going underneath them I wouldn't eat it!

They had to milk by hand, twice a day, morning and night, but you see we'd got a fella named Albert who used to come from the village. He used to walk over at half past four in the morning to start for five o'clock. He helped with the milking. I never had anything to do with the cows, I was too terrified of them.