3. 1924

Imagine waking up and it being 2024.

First thought is: can I have a coffee?

Was coffee widely available in 1924? Would you have been able to buy it in Manchester?

Would the children have gone to school? I think so. Defo nursery wouldn’t have existed.

But I may not have worked. I might not have been to school!

What would we have for breakfast? Perhaps eggs or porridge.

The air would have been dirtier, and we wouldn’t have heard planes and cars. It would have sounded like Covid times. AKA quiet.

We might not have had a fridge. Of course we wouldn’t have had one. Where would we have kept the milk?

Would we have had a bathroom?

We would have been colder and less comfortable.

But we would not have known another reality.

Perhaps we would have had milk delivered.

A small challenge would have been keeping it cool in the summer months.

In the evening, we would have read, played the piano, sang, listened to the gramophone. Sketching, sewing, gardening.

Perhaps we would have been plagued by thoughts of war and grief.

We would have lost loved ones in the war. And no one would talk about the horror.

No one would have known the horrors to come.

I’d have probably gone to the shops every day because we defo wouldn’t have had a fridge.

And my husband may have expected and received a cooked breakfast and tea on the table at a certain time every day without fail.

We would probably know everyone on our street and the surrounding area.

People in shops would know our name and we would be invited to things locally.

There would be more clubs and societies and we would write letters to friends and relatives.