Land Girls

Just found this BBC series on Amazon and bought and watched the first series.  Totally loved it mainly for the costumes.  Wish it was a career I'd thought of earlier, I'd have loved to be involved in wardrobe for something like this. 

I'm in the process of putting together a similar look (tea stained painter's overalls!) for a 1940's railway weekend coming up soon.  I'd love the full on official uniform but that will take me much longer to pull together and I need a cheaper option for now.  Talking of which Gressenhall are doing a Land Girls exhibition at the end of August and I plan to go along for some research!




As well as the Women's Land Army there was also the Women's Timber Corps.  Or the "Land Girls" and the "Lumberjills".  Their uniform was similar with brown jumpers and they provided the wood used for manufacturing and energy production.

New beginnings

I've blogged before.  In another life.  A long distant past where I pretended to be a crafty mum and perfect housewife.  The reality was that I was failing at both but didn't want the cracks to show.  You can't be a perfect housewife when your husband is so damn imperfect and you can't be crafty when your world is crashing down around your ears.  It was three years ago now that I decided to take the brave step to leave all that behind me and become a single parent to five children.  For a while I felt a failure.  I could feel people judging me and felt like just another statistic.  But slowly I've regained my confidence, brushed myself off and life is now back on a much more even keel than ever it was before.  I'm enjoying being me without trying to be anything I'm not.  I have nobody to answer to and life is happy.  Don't get me wrong, it's bloody tough being a single parent to so many.  There's never enough time, never enough money.  But we get by and face each day as it comes and so far, so good!