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3 Sun
We have nice quiet day & tell fortunes by fireside. We talk & play & sing all night until 11pm. We are all very happy especially Harry
Wrote Auntie Annie.
W 4 Mon
Wake 4 up at 5. Have hurry to train. Very rough weather. Not sick see the Tynwalds desk rails all smashed up. Arrive Liverpool 2.05. at Warrington Dinner. Meet WRAF [indecipherable] us for as [Crewe?] Supper at Union Jack Club. Leave at 10 pm. [indecipherable] 12.30. Sarum 3am [beds?] 3.20am. Arrive home 9am.
F 5 Tues.
Lovely day. Recd letters from Alun [Bones?] wife Jennie. Nettie. Ken. Pine.
Pack up all day. Go to Faust with Tap. Reg. Mac & Sister Collins. I feel very dopey & am sorry to leave.
F 6 Wed
Lovely day. Reached [Forant?] after saving au revouir at Salisbury. Go to Y.M.C.A. for concert with Val. Everything in order & history repeats itself as I write to Marie in YMCA's -
Wrote Dad & Maisie in YMCA
7 Th
Lovely Day. Parade with full pack & we get very tired. [Gas?] School in afternoon & Thomas nearly [indecipherable] [gassed?]. Corpe to Cains lecture at Y.M.C.A. & music in the mess afterwards.
W & Fine 8 Fri
after 9 am. Go for walk with Wlta march out to Train. Get good seat & arr. F'stone at 3.30 am. We cannot sleep for fun about our [indecipherable] until 5.50 am. We are all jolly.
Mem. Lottie. Mrs Wilhaus. Wrote Nette. Bess. Ethel. Dulce. Cyril. Miss Niness
F 9 Sat
Lovely crossing. We are crowded but get good position. We miss a mine by 200 yds. Awful march up to one Blanket Hill but Froggie carries my kit. E & I go down Town for a good meal & hear the R.A. orchestra in S.A. [cont?] on return.
We turn in & sleep well although it is very cold –
Sent views of Folkestone to Dad & M.R.L.
Write M.R.L. in S.A. & Y.M.C.A. [indecipherable]. Sent & [indecipherable]