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Eve Farrant (nee Lisher), born in 1917 at Lancing, kept herself very busy with activities involving her children, Colin and Lynda, and tells us of one such time.
'At Steyning Grammar School around 1961, a meeting of parents was held, to consider holding a grand fete. They needed to raise money for building a sport's pavilion and changing rooms, as the field used for the school's sports was a long distance from the school buildings.
Along with Pat Wrench and Olive Hitchman I volunteered to run a bottle stall on the great day. Before the actual event we worked hard, getting promises of bottles and had a most successful stall.
I remember how my leg ached on this day as I'd just had injections for varicose veins at Sussex Hospital, Hove. Having seen how my mother suffered with varicose ulcers, I thought it advisable to have attention to my veins at this stage.
Colin went on another skiing holiday with the school, the destination this time being Switzerland. He had a wonderful time.
Colin had a pen friend, Guy Deffaux whom he wrote to regularly and who lived in Amien. He came to England for a holiday with us once and Colin in return went to France and really enjoyed this holiday, especially the French meals which seemed to last the whole evening.
With the help of Leo Matten I had a very good vegetable plot at home, which I could now manage myself, so I dispensed with his weekly morning's work. In the greenhouse I was getting good crops of tomatoes and was generally spending any spare time I had gardening.
Whilst gardening I would often talk to Milly Box who lived at 'Newmans' next door. She had suffered very severely from depression after the death of her husband and, for a while had taken to the bottle. However, with my enthusiasm she started taking an interest in her front garden; the back being taken over by an old gentleman who cultivated it to grow vegetables. I often chatted over the fence to this old man and he gave me some useful gardening tips.
For my food shopping, I would go to Tesco in Montague Street, Worthing with Eileen Tyers.'
Tesco is no longer in Worthing Town centre, having moved to Durrington, (on the outskirts of Worthing) it is now a very large store on a shopping complex, complete with its own petrol station.
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