I’m sitting here writing this having made a decision that could be life changing, I just have no way of knowing whether it will be in a good way or a bad way yet.
I’m not going to share this yet as I need to explain first to my nearest and dearest but once that is out in the open, I’ll explain fully on here. Regardless, I will need to rely on a rationing and a frugal make do and mend lifestyle, more than ever.
I wanted to apologise for being a little absent too but I’ve had such a lovely week. I took unpaid leave from work (I’d used up all my annual leave) to spend time with my son who I hadn’t seen in several months. All of my 3 grown up children finally together, the complete Hobbit clan, like the old days.
Those days when they were little, only seems like yesterday. There are old posts on here when they were still at school and now they are 36, 32 and 27. I’m finding it hard to understand how brief life is.
And now my son has left to travel on the train to go back up North, I’m crying because I love my children and those few days were precious and we were back to being our little clan, surviving against hardship (those latter years living in Canada and early years living back in the UK were so very difficult), putting the world to rights, just picking up where we left off.
Rationing again
And tomorrow I finally start planning my return to rationing again. As always, I never think of rationing as deprivation. I see it as living simply, frugally, healthily and wisely given what we have available to us. It teaches us how to make do on little and being satisfied with less so truly enjoying those days when we splurge a little and have those treats. How much more appreciated those treats become…
Moving forward with my book and many more plans
Exciting times and plans and as we move forward into 2026, my 60th year will be filled with achieving personal goals. My first proper book is one of them! Full colour, hardbacked, filled with recreated and rephotographed WW2 ration book recipes, readers recipes and much, much more. It is already evolving and can’t wait to share with you the progress as we move into 2026!
This is a self-published project and will be printed in batches. Nearly 500 of you have signed up to my waiting-list over the last 6 weeks and when the time comes to go to print, all signed up on the list will be given the option to purchase the book and receive the first printing run! I’ll also keep you personally updated through the waiting-list too! Thank you, this is going to be a dream come true for me.
Join the waiting list here —> https://the1940sexperiment.com/ration-book-recipes-new-book/
Look forward to speaking soon,
Much love, C xxxx
Change is in the air, change is good. Frightening, exhilarating and scary but needed at times. Thank for sharing your life with us. I look forward to your next post.
Cheers!
Definitely all of those things! Thank you xxxx C
How excitingly mysterious! Sending good vibes for you in preparation!
Hope you had a wonderful time with all your sprogs 🙂 x
Alas it’s not really excitingly mysterious but it is a leap of faith, I just need to let my Mum and Dad know before sharing it on the internet in case they hear it second hand from a family member and start worrying! It is exciting for me though xxx Thanks so much Scott.
Carolyn I wish you well in whatever decision you are about to make/reveal. You are such a generous, kind soul. Life is hard at times. Some days we can’t find a way out of our problems. I’m in that situation at the moment. We all have these times. I think once a decision is made life eases, it the indecision that is so tiring. You have a wonderfully close family ( I love Jess’s sense of humour, don’t ever lose that Jess). Like you I look at my son and daughter and cannot believe they are in their fifties, how could that possible happen, when I am only 36?🤣 Sending much love darling girl. June 💜
Thank you June, life is so terribly brief and the older one gets the quicker time passes. Much love to you too xxxx C
Firstly, what an absolutely gorgeous picture of the three of you together, gosh you are so alike!! It sounds like you had a wonderful time while your son was in town, which does make the parting so bittersweet doesn’t it.
Secondly, well done on making this big decision, once a decision is made usually things start to fall into place. I have made so many big changes in my life, lots of them blogged about over the course of the last almost twenty years … where DOES the time go. My two sons are now 44 and 36 and my eldest great-grandchild is almost 7 … now I feel very old.
Wishing you all the very best and I’m really looking forward to finding out more. xx
I was speaking to one of my daughters the other day and I said “I wish I’d kept a diary for all these years” and then stupidly realised that blogging is essentially keeping an online diary of sorts. And you’ve been doing the same for 20 years Sue and similarly here too! It’s sometimes nice to relive old memories and look back at the challenges, changes and how are kids have grown xxxx C
Looking forward to the big reveal!