The house is semi-detached with two bay windows, one up and one down. It is an almost-new house, built in 1939, just before the outbreak of war. In the upstairs front bedroom, the one with the upper bay window, a young man is putting on his army uniform. He is standing in the master bedroom of the house. It is the room that his parents planned to occupy when they bought the house early in 1940 and would have done if it had not been for the garden. The young man’s mother loves the garden. From the rear, slightly smaller bedroom, she has a good view of it. The garden is long and rather narrow and affords a view of allotments in the distance where the young man’s father now spends his rare leisure time. He is vigorously growing vegetables of all sorts in answer to government pleas to Dig for
