Yes, it was a Ministry of Food offshoot which encouraged people to keep pigs to help with overcoming wartime food shortages. Here's some info about pigs on the home front from my local history archive: http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/includes/external/nvq/tracey/animals_pig.html
On 9 September 2013 08:24, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > That's probably a wartime poster, or just after when we still had rationing. > > People still club together to buy and raise pigs - one of my friends is doing > it now, and my brother and his neighbour had one a few years ago. I had some > of it with them one Sunday, and everything in the meal had been raised or > grown within a couple of hundred yards of their house. > > Victoria House is a magnificent building in Bloomsbury Sq, opposite the > entrance to Pied Bull Yard, where the Leica shop is. It was in the basement > that I first saw a mainframe computer - it was in the ICL 1900 series. In > 1981 I was learning to program on microcomputers, and the tutor had worked > there for a long time, so one day we all walked over to Victoria House and he > gave us a guided tour of the machine room so we'd know what we were letting > ourselves in for. > > B > > > On 8 Sep 2013, at 23:02, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just a little fun signage for this week. Below the photo, I've typed out >> the small print appearing at the bottom of the sign. Can't believe I've >> kept up with this years PAW given how busy I've been. Only 16 more weeks to >> go. If I do a PAW next year, I promise it will be a hell of a lot more >> interesting :-). Also, I've rearranged the photos to correspond to the cell >> numbers. So photo 1 is week one. Not sure why I had it so backwards, but >> it's fixed now :-). >> >> http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/_IGP6969_large.html >> >> Still haven't heard from Pentax about the DA* 50-135. I shall call tomorrow. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
