Margaret Davidson was bringing up a young family in the Falklands when war broke out 40 years ago.
The UK, which had ruled the islands for 150 years, quickly chose to fight.
"They thought they were freeing the Falklands from the British yoke but they were soon sorted out on that," he says. She talks about Don reading Gerald Durrell's book My Family And Other Animals to them throughout the conflict."They had just been drafted in," she says. "They had no idea it was so cold, they had no idea that we didn't speak Spanish, in fact they had no idea.The Davidsons moved out of Port Stanley to Estancia farm on the other side of the island in the hope it would be safer.The task force of British troops arrived in the Falklands in early May.
They set up the Abriachan Nursery overlooking the loch and the garden and nursery have grown up over the hillside over the years. They even have plants from the Falkland Islands growing in the garden as reminders of their time there.
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