<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">These are fascinating stories. My aunt, born in 1943, lived in Czechoslovakia and tells a similar story of what an exotic treat a banana was at Christmas. I think of the bombings and the food rationing in Europe often these days as I complain to myself about the pandemic. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m so glad some agreement seems underway on Brexit. I remember all the endless strikes in England in 1978-79, when you never knew what was going to be on the grocery shelves or not and all the trash was piled up in the London squares. What would Virginia Woolf have thought? Being American, I was very impressed at how orderly everyone was in England, when this country would have been in chaos.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Happy holidays! <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 24, 2020, at 3:59 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" class="">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><font class="">“<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class="">The
supermarket chain Sainsbury's said that if the travel restrictions continued
there could be some food shortages, including of salad leaves and citrus fruit.”
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<div class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class=""><font class=""></font></span> </div>
<div class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class=""><font class="">From Alan Bennett’s “A Private Function” (set in
1947):</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class=""><font class=""></font></span> </div>
<div class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">PC PENNY: Mrs Metcalf?</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">MRS METCALF: What love?</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class=""><font style="COLOR: #3f3f42" class="">PC PENNY: Are you wanting that
banana?</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial" class=""><font style="COLOR: #3f3f42" class="">MRS<font color="#3f3f42" class=""> METCALF:
(Apologetically) I am, love, I’m planning</font> a trifle.</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><font class="">Stuart</font></div>
<div class="">(Day 282)</div>
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