Life in a small village in Wales for a child during the Second World War had its lighter moments as well as its serious ones, as author Bob Collins reveals in this delightful book of verse. The reader is privy to not only life as it was for a young child during that time, but also to the latter years of the author's life during his retirement after a career in both Great Britain and the United States. And for good measure, we are also treated to some amusing fictional verse along the way.