Poppies in the corn

"My Father rented for us a rather run-down bungalow in the tiny Hamphire village of Redenham, a few miles from Andover. My mother, a city girl all her life, was horrified. Anything rural was anathema to her, from the dark country roads to the watchful cows in the fields. "When the Second World War broke out, Fay Garrison with her mother and sister moved from their native Birmingham. Her idyllic existence was then shattered by the news of her father's capture at Dunkirk. Later in the war she returned to Birmingham, to a very different school system with new teachers who shaped her future. A heroic aunt, previously captured by the Nazis, became a strong influence in her life. Eventually qualifying as a teacher she settled down in Solihull.