Ffynh 6D

At one place I was only there one night... it was alive with bugs ...when I went to bed I lit the candle and oh my goodness I picked up the pillow like that and with out a word of a lie they were there scattering... I had never seen them before. I couldn’t sleep on the bed so I spent the night on the boards...When it came to daylight I went downstairs... and I told her. Oh she said, you must have brought them with you... I left that place and went to my brother’s... I was all lumps, oh I was in a terrible state. I couldn’t even look for another job until all these had cleared... but then I went from the frying pan into thefire... I was starved to death there. She (her employer) locked everything up and gave me 3 lumps of sugar for one day and I had a small pat of margarine... and for my dinnereveryday I had half a bag of potato crisps for 3 weeks... and yet I was cooking for them but being what-do-you-call being slow, I suppose in those days I wouldn’t think of taking anything. That’s one thing that was always drummed into us... don’t you ever take anything that doesn’t belong to you... She said her daughter was dieting... and she wouldn’t diet if I ate...

(Oral interview, Mrs E.D., Rhondda, 1983 [Tip: daliwch Ctrl a chliciwch dolen i'w agor mewn tab newydd. (Cuddio tip)] )