Marged wrote :- >Well, my teeth are in good condition, anyway, Gordon! I didn't visit a dentist between leaving Ormskirk for rural Herefordshire in March 1975 and keeping the appointment for a check-up which my wife insisted on making for me in Wallasey in 2006, several years after I'd returned 'home'. To my astonishment (and despite much trepidation) I was declared 'A1', with only the perfunctory 'clean-up' being necessary. So although I didn't think much of it at the time, my mother's exchanging my sweet coupons for powdered egg, tinned spam, cod-liver oil capsules and such-like during my formative years has in fact proved immensely beneficial to me as I rapidly approach old age. :-) (Thanks, Mam!) Gordon From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Rationing (was HANCOCK etc) >Well, my teeth are in good condition, anyway, Gordon! >Marged > >Marged wrote :- >>Sweets were still on the ration until 1953 -very little available - this >>was just wishful thinking on my part >My mother used to swap the family sweet coupons for 'proper' food, so I >literally never had any until I'd left school. :-( >Kids don't know they're born nowadays, do they? :-) >Gordon