Long Nose Point
Balmain
14.7.18
Dear Norm,
This time it is just before leaving for church. my time for
writing but to deny it is bitterly cold and blowing a severe westerly and we
have had tea early and no visitors so seized the opportunity to write a couple
of letters. I have just written to Joe. I was very pleased to receive your
letter this mail but wasn’t it strange that when you started that letter you
mentioned in at that Fritz had not been over for some time and before you had
finished it you remarked about the maroons. You appear to have had a lucky
escape that Bomb dropping quite close to your quarters.
CG showed me your
Photograph taken with Miss Harken and note your remarks. I am afraid that ere
long he will be joining the Y.M.C.A. if you give him such invitations. I
daresay you Norm, like the rest of them will not come back singlehanded. You
all seem to be like a happy family and certainly would bring you back to St
John’s when you have the Jolly Miller and C ???
It appears by all the letters at present that you are having
the glorious English weather over there that we who have English parents have
heard so much about. The Buttercups, Daisies etc at the mention of them Norm,
seems to give Mum such a longing. I don’t think it will ever be my lot to go
over there but I feel quite content to stay here for Australia will do me.
I suppose you have heard about our Strong Posts well it is
just great and we do enjoy it. Anything in the music line I love and it is
grand the way all our Staff have entered into it. CG is the conductor and
everytime the boys come in or go out we go down and sing. I think I sent you a
form in my last letter. Well next Tuesday night we are having an impromptu
evening and only members of the staff to perform. CG was asked to arrange the
programme and it is wonderful the talent we have discovered since the origin of
the Strong Post. It is to be held in the office and supper afterwards and each
one is to bring a present for our stall which we are to have on A.I.F Day.
Harvey Allen is coming and he said he would not miss it. I will tell you how it
gets on in the next letter. I am sending you a mail which has a Photo of some
of our girls. I was in the original and it was a good one too. I was screaming,
laughing like the rest of them at the chap standing, but the reproduction in
the mail chopped our heads off.
Just came home from church and there were not many there, in
the first place it is bitterly cold. The coldest I can ever remember and then
there is a Memorial Service at St Mary’s for Ruby Lynch, Mrs Vale’s youngest
sister who died very suddenly on Tuesday with Gastric Ulcers. It has been a
terrible shock to the family for she always had a cheeky word for all. Then
Stan was taken away with Appendicitis (since I was up there) and is better now
but they said it was a very serious case and Al was not able to see him for
awhile. It always appears to me that trouble seems to come at once. The Vale
family are having a terrible time lately.
I am enclosing a snap of Ada taken at the SS [Sunday
School] picnic by Lina Harper so I sneaked one as I like to put something
in besides the letter. I think it is good don’t you?
Mrs Llewellyn is having another concert the Bo Peep again
but this time it is in the National Theatre.
Well Norm must close this time as I still have another
letter to write and all at 99 send their best wishes and hope you are still
well and happy, from yours sincerely Dode
PS I was just thinking that I suppose you will receive this
letter in France.
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