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from martin contains these words:

During the war my grandmother devoted the whole of an extremely large
garden to her chickens by 1945 there were only nettles left.

Ah. I had a grandmother like that. Strangely, she was never without
butter, bacon, tea, coffee, sugar, etc.

Then again, she had a *LOT* of hens, and a grocer for a next-door
neighbour........

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Rusty Hinge
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