Wartime Wisdom

Today is another public holiday in France - Victory in Europe Day. For a country that experienced occupation, resistance and liberation during the Second World War, it's still a day of national remembrance and pride, and international gratitude.

But today is a Scottish themed day for me, because in the midst of my mother's Edinburgh treasures, I found this wonderful scarf bearing British slogans from the Second World War. (Oh how I wish I'd ironed it before I took these photos...) We begin with the bloggers' favourite: This is a rather less remembered wartime slogan, but still useful for these days of financial worries:

Here is a question which now has a good environmental message. The same goes for this one, although the pun is cringe-worthy! So we move on to slogans which highlight how different lives were then:

This was all about War Bonds, I assume. My father tells me that War Bonds are still going! What? Did this one EVER rhyme?And on that rather cheesey and perplexing note, I'll leave you with the entire (although sadly un-ironed) scarf. A very stylish patchwork theme - making do and mending, of course!