When the Wind Blows Page #3

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I can see it now.

We had nasturtiums

growing all over it.

And we painted the front green.

Painted, it looked quite pretty.

Next door grew cabbages on theirs.

Yes. We had a Morrison.

Hm, I used to sleep in it.

I stuck pin-up girls

all over the inside.

Betty Grable,

Anne Shelton, Patricia Roc.

The roof got all smoky, cos I used

to read in bed with a candle.

Yes, it was nice in the war, really.

The shelters, the blackouts,

cups of tea...

The ARP, the evacuees.

London kids seeing

cows for the first time.

Old Churchill on the wireless.

The nine o'clock news.

- Vera Lynn singing away.

- Worker's Playtime.

Spitfires and Hurricanes in the

blue sky over the cornfields.

The White Cliffs of Dover.

Old Jerry coming over every night.

Those were the days.

Don't you dare use my best

cushions from the front room!

I'll get some old ones from upstairs.

I'll put them in plastic bags.

I don't want fingermarks

getting all over them.

I shouldn't worry too much, love.

They're bound to get dusty with

all the fallout coming down.

It says here we've got to lay

in food supplies for 14 days.

I'd better put a note out

for 28 pints of milk, then.

I'll just pop out and get 14 loaves,

dear! And a protractor.

Anything else you want?

I'll need more plastic bags, dear!

There's no bread, ducks! Sold out.

There seems to be some

sort of panic purchasing.

It can't be helped, dear.

After all, there is a war on.

Or nearly, anyway.

I hope you haven't left that cape

dripping in the hall, James!

Oh, no, dear.

Mr Willis has sold out of protractors.

I expect everyone wants 60 degrees.

He was terrifically kind, Mr Willis.

He cut me out a bit of card

with 60 degrees on it. Look.

Oh! Nice, dear.

Here's the emergency supplies, ducks.

Two packets of ginger creams,

half a jam sponge,

a tin of pineapple chunks

and a tin of Christmas pud.

It'll all be over by Christmas.

- You're not decorating now, James!

- We've got to paint the windows white, dear.

- Whatever for?

- It's for the radiation, I think.

Like they do in greenhouses, to keep

out the sun. It's the correct thing.

- It won't be that hot, surely!

- Well, I don't know.

They say the one at Hiroshima

was equal to one thousand suns.

So it is quite hot.

And besides, the powers that be

are making much better ones now.

Science has leaped forward

with giant strides. Oops!

Mind you don't get paint

on those curtains, James.

You should have taken them

down first. You never think.

I know that smile of yours, James.

"Keep doors closed to prevent

the spread of fire", it says.

- But you've taken off half the doors, James.

- Yes, dear.

Won't that make the fire worse, then?

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