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My Mum was a Land Army girl during WW2. She was sent to a farm at Gooderstone and with another girl had lodgings in the village. One day the landlady's daughter went down with diptheria and mum and her friend had to move out very quickly and were instructed to disinfect all their kit. The only way they could think to do this was to put it all in the milk sterilizer which they duly did. When it came out the Wellie boots were a gooey mess of rubber, the hats were small and floppy, and the woollen jumpers were just small roundish blobs. As you can imagine with clothing be at a premium, they were not given full marks for ingenuity! In fact Mum says they were given the biggest dressing down ever.
One of Mums task was to take the bull for a walk daily, and somewhere she has a photo of her and the bull with her leading it by a rope. She does assure me he was extremely good tempered and well behaved possibly because he was not fully grown.
Another task was to take the horse and cart to the village with milk and supplies, and being the helpful sort she used to bring back cigarettes etc for her fellow workers until she was told this was definitely not allowed. The next time she took the milk to the village she came out of the building to find the horse and cart missing. The horse had taken himself down to the shop as he was so used to going that way.

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