After struggling to work today on my son's mountain bike across the snows of Surrey to be greeted with newspapers proclaiming the return of the Blitz spirit it's as well to remember just how easy we have it.
By coincidence the following letter
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Arrived in the office. This letter is from the final months of WWII and highlights just how tough things were.
Little did they know it but this generation would also have to live through the winter of 1947 three years later.