I would like to bet there are not many women these days that make pastry every week like our mother did, and in the volume now only seen in a super market bakery, (I am exaggerating a bit). But with seven of us in the farm house to cater for at that time...
Father always used to make, all our Christmas toys, Make them in his workshop, and hid them from us boys, Made them out of bits of wood, laying about the farm, In her busy schedule of work, mother always found time to make her Christmas cake, but while...