It’s the silly story really, so turn away if you don’t enjoy reading daft things.
The bookmarks of course arise from the latest Simpson Topping publication on nothing to do in chorlton Down Beech Road Looking for Chorlton Row, and are the latest clever whizz to share our books with everyone.
And on a whim I sent some of the said book marks to our kids in Leicester, Salford, and Warsaw.
Almost on the same day came the food parcel from one of our Canadian cousins.
We have lots of them, all living in Ontario and in the space of the last decade we have become closer.
It started with Jac, who like me was exploring our family history and has broadened out to include the huge Pember family, plenty of whom played host to our Saul who spent three months travelling in North America.
More recently Heather Marie was here and it is she who sent us a food parcel, of maple syrup and pancake mix from “Jakeman’s, established in 1876”.
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Four years ago Chris sent us a box of stuff which like Heather Marie’s have fascinated the family.
All of which got me thinking about food we send and receive.
During the last war and directly afterwards some families would have been sent unrationed food from relatives elsewhere, as would troops on the battlefields of northern France in the Great War.
Which would have been a welcome reminder of home.
It still goes on with us, for when ever Rosa comes over from Milan she brings bits of “stuff” we can’t easily get here from a particular pasta, to oranges from the south and little household gadgets, which remind us from home.
So that is it.
Location, Chorlton, Leicester, Salford, Warsaw, Varese, and Ontario
Pictures, from the collection of Polly Childs and Andrew Simpson, 2022
*A new book on nothing to do in chorlton, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20new%20book%20on%20doing%20nothing%20in%20Chorlton
**Food parcels, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search?q=food+parcels
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