The benefits of a Pandemic, this project is back underway. Sorry about the delay.

Dear Reader, I am aware of one, who has recently jolted me back into action on this project. 

Interesting that as we live through a pandemic not seen since the Spanish Flu of 1918, I have resorted  to the letters  from 1918 that I have transcribed and those still to do to reactiveate this blog. 

The letters from here on are more of a mix, some from Maria, mother of ANS Barwick who is working in London during WW1, some from his friends in Balmain and a few are from ANS himself, that were sent back to his family. Unfortunately the bulk of his letters are missing .Similarly the diary that is mentioned as being passed around friends to read is missing. Sadly, if these had ended up with his sister Illma and in her home, they would have been lost in the fire that took her life a few years later.

So, I resume with a letter sent almost 102 years ago to ANS (Norm) from a friend in Balmain.