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One thing we did have a lot of during the occupation was that houses were empty and the gardens sometimes had strawberries and raspberries and fruit, and we’d go and help ourselves to these delicacies, if you like. One day there were these apple trees, again by Le Manoir in the Forest, and I thought well, the Germans were all around there, I thought they are going to take all the apples. I thought I would help myself to some apples, but they weren’t quite ripe and I ate some and I was as sick as a dog. And the trouble was, you see in those days we didn’t have the medication, and I know I was ill for several weeks, in fact my mother was quite worried whether I’d recover and I was in bed I know for a long time. But eventually I did pull round, but medication was something we didn’t have. I was probably fortunate then, I’ve never eaten a green apple since. One learns these things.
FRED GALLIENNE

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