I'm glad you said that about the smocks, Kevin. None of my family or their friends in Sussex wore them - it was old suits, as I recall (and I can just about remember 1948). I didn't want to imply that East Anglia was so far behind Silly Sussex.

There's a link on the site, I notice, to an Edwardian House - asking for volunteers, so they are obviously seeking to extend the idea. What puzzles me is how the families they choose don't seem to have any old relations who can help - even I can remember Victorian houses with Victorian loos, for example - they just hadn't been brought up to date. And I have some old wartime cookbooks - real ones - as well as the nostalgia versions. I've not tried the haybox yet. And I know that during the war people did cheat - my Mum and her landlady had disagreements about the numbers of eggs in the waterglass (isinglass?) bucket. Also people used to go round road blocks and so on to visit people. If I'd been in West Wickham in the programme, I'd have gone out on the bike to a farm and come to some arrangement involving wild rabbit (and a direct debit from my bank account, if I couldn't help with haymaking).....it would have been quite in the spirit of things, I would have thought.

Penny