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  I remember on one of the regular visits to grandparents at Cleethorpes, my grandma assisted by one of my aunts or uncles, methodically icing one of the large square cakes she had made - each one of her family received one at Christmas (she had worked as a cook before she married and cooked everything for her 7 children. Cakes were iced with royal icing in white, pale pink and pale peach, with the silver dragees carefully placed in the flowers in rows.
  She also made and iced wedding cakes.
  And she always cooked goose for Christmas, we would go over and have a taste after Christmas, and she made pork sausages after they had killed a pig they had fattened up. Us grandchildren would play cards, usually Newmarket, for pennies, and all be given port and lemonade in a glass, and smell the lovely white crusty home made bread she made every day in her fire oven. But we always had to behave well and not be noisy or talk when we were eating.
  
  Decorations were made with strips of coloured papers hung together in chains across the room.
  These were special occasions during austere times at the end of and after the War when you had to manage on a low income.

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