Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 159
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him once again after so many months. The last news I have of old Bryan is that he was out of the trenches for a spell. Thank Goodness he is in a comparatively quiet bit of the line now & is likely to be there for a long time.
Since I last wrote, on the 4th, I have been having a very very nice time. Though this is a cold and desolate place and in that way the worst station I have been at, I really am having the best time I've had at any station as far as enjoying myself after working hours. As I told you before there are a lot of very nice people living around who are very good to us, that is to those of us who are more or less presentable.
I cant tell you what a difference it makes to have nice places to go to and nice people to see. It is really just a little breath of home air and refinement that makes an enormous difference to life so far from home and everything that is dearest to me.
Of course I have always had darling Aunty Mary and the girls but I can only see them once in a while & it is so nice to have some of the joys of home life during working times.
This life at a station in England as I have hitherto experienced it is all right up to a point but there has always been a certain lack of refinement and nice influences that one must always miss. The men one lives with