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THE BROWNS’ CHRISTMAS
December 1944The Browns had managed to buy a real Christmas turkey. It was of a whopping size. All the neighbours knew about it as Tilly Brown went round asking them if she could borrow a giant roasting pan. “Don’t worry if you don’t have one, but if you do have a tin that size I should be really grateful,” she said. Eventually she managed to borrow a pan that belonged to a baker.
No one else had a turkey, not even a goose. But no one else had easy access to black market fowl. Dolly’s brother-in-law had a poultry-farm that was busy producing eggs to supply what was supposed to be government rations. Mum asked Tilly where she had got such a mammoth bird. She said she had saved up her coupons for months, just like her sister. Together they had managed to acquire t
