Yes, one thing that I, I always remember when I was teaching at Ashburton was that in September when the school opened, we used to have a temporary influx of hop pickers's children. Oh yes, and um they, they were lovely children and they were spotlessly clean, but all their clothes smelt of hops, and you used to think, when am I ever going to get the smell of hops out of my classroom? But they were, they, they came from South Wales to pick hops in this area and they also came from Birmingham. Um, and they were housed on the farms at Courty Park, for instance, which is now Alexandra Park. There was a huge, huge red brick barn there by the side of the oast houses, and that was all fitted out for them to live and sleep and cook and all the rest of it. So this sort of provision for the temporary workers was very good. Um, they weren't slumming it or anything like that. Well of course it was. I mean when I was at school we used to have um fruit picking camp um in the summer holidays and um we would go and stay in caravans on somebody's fruit farm and pick plums and apples and so on, and it was great fun.

And these are the sorts of things that you, you get in a country environment that the children from cities never got the opportunity to do. And it was such a A gentle pace of life.