Palam Tuesday 16th October 1945
My Dear Mother & Olive,
Thank you for another letter received yesterday and I was very pleased indeed to
hear that you had received the parcel quite safely at last. I am glad that you
are pleased with them and I hope it helps you on a bit and provides a bit of a
change to your wartime diet. Did you have to pay duty on them? I want to know if
you don’t mind because I don’t like sending home things that may be an expense
for you. Not that I’ll stop sending things but I will be careful what I send. I
dare say you had to pay a bit on the powder because it’s not supposed to be
sent. I had a letter from Vera today but she doesn’t seem to have received her
last parcel yet.
Fancy
Aunt Winnie starting work. I can’t imagine it really and
have my doubts as to whether she will do much good after all this time. She
ought to have started a couple of years ago when the war was on and the places
took anyone for a good wage.
Things are about the same here and don’t change much. There always seems plenty
of work although whether it’s all necessary or not I wouldn’t like to say. Still
I might just as well be busy as it passes the time more quickly. It can’t go
quick enough either.
It gets dark at six o’clock here now and next month I expect we will be starting
fires too. You wouldn’t believe it would you? Still I will be glad when the
winter comes and goes, it will be getting nearer to my release then.
I am enclosing a few little pictures of a guy you may or may not recognise. I am
sorry there are two more of which I only had one of each and I have sent them to
Vera. so ask Vera to let you have a look at them, even if it’s only to have a
laugh. If I can get any enlargements I will send them later. F/O Nicholas took
the photographs, so if you don’t like them you can blame him.
Well dears, that’s about all for now and I hope you are both quite well and that
there is bags of sunshine about. Look after yourselves and God Bless.
Lots of Love, Les. XXXX XXXXX
There is a footnote including sketches of three hats. Olive
was apparently known for her hat collection. “Is this
the expensive effort Olive, or this? Or this?”