16.5.20 Dig for Victory

Good morning everyone and welcome back to the School of Daddy. Today we continue with our look back at our "Protect and Survive" Nuclear War and Civil Defence topic. As you can see, work has begun in earnest on the Type 1a Improvised Garden Shelter with the excavation of a trench. We will be removing all the doors in the house to construct the above ground walls and roof and then banking earth up around the whole structure. To address the issue of the inevitable breakdown of law and order and the threat of looters I have declared martial law and drafted the children. Here Katie is practicing the "Stand To" bugle call in case of a dawn or even mid-morning raid. Plans for this and other shelters can be found by following this link for those of you wanting to join in at home - http://www.atomica.co.uk/shelters/main.htm