Did she talk to you as a foster mother about the war?

No, she didn't.

She, she would often say, "Oh, I've just got my widow's pension.

That's all I've got to look after you." Because the situation was that although they were meant to be paying her, my parents were meant to be paying her to look after me, or my mother was, she very, um, very rarely did.

It was irregular, and it was, like, again, to put the time in perspective, it was £2 a week was considered a pretty fair whack for looking after a child, you know, in tho- in those days.

So yeah, it was this, this situation where she didn't divulge much of her private life, but looking back, I can deduce certain things, particularly as I have my care records.

So if I can just explain, the house that we lived in belonged to her biological daughter.

Yeah