Elizabeth’s Reviews > London War Notes > Status Update

“At the seaside towns, it seems, the local housewives couldn’t buy a kitchen spoon or a cake tin. The entire supply has been bought up by resourceful visiting children to make sand castles with, since buckets and spades were almost unprocurable” (356).

Interesting that the British already feel, in Sept 1943, that the tide is beginning to turn after the fall of Italy.