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<p>a4701810.html</p><p>4./ It's a bit of a relief for me here to switch off on to Father's great budget of Jany. 27<sup>th</sup>, as talking or thinking about la guerre (amidst which we live O.A.S) is pas bon. . . . The continued glowing a/cs. you supply me as to the lovliness of the garden & orchard are trés bon. . . Fancy the pumpkins & other climbers growing so swiftly & covering almost everything. It shows that the soil of "Warrnambool" must be very rich, good!! Grand to know that you do not have to rely on greengrocers for most vegetables. What a saving!! Joves, but it is splendid! Mention of vege's. reminds me that we as "Soldats" (soldiers) have been making the pommes-de Terre (potatoes) laugh since we came to this part of the Front. There were "bocoo" (plenty) in the Village & barns - which are now deserted so rather than see them go to waste we got busy with our knives & made "Chips" - to augment our Army ration of eternal "stoo" & bisquit. Our frying pans were manufactured from petrol-tins, or any likely container, & the fat or grease was "bludged" from our "Babblin' Brooks" (cooks) so the rest was easy - "stoking up" & the eating part. Others in their search for "mungy" (food) went a little further in their investigations about the Farm houses & barns, & soon there were a multitude of little fires going for their lives in the yard, on which, had one been a keen detective, he'd have smelt: "chook", tame-rabbit, & pork - & other stuff. (It's the wonder that the fires & smoke did not "bring-the-flies" (Fritz's shells), but I s'pose the mist was a bit too thick for him to penetrate or there'd have been some reminder from him that the War was still on, that he was playing, & as were we. Anyhow it ended good-O.) The chipped potato craze is still going strong & is likely to, so long as the grease & vegetable lasts. Guess we'll be able to make a mess of your nice clean stove pots & pans, Mother, when we get back to you, tho. I'd rather not take the risk of turning out any of my amateur cooking there, because - well, it'd be terrible rough & you mightn't survive the shock. Ha! ha!! . . . The "Mungy" (food) question in once(?) Fair Albion is still acute (for the masses I s'pose) & the "Heads" are imploring everyone to go in for potato culture as a means to help keep the cruel wolf from the door. There's no doubt but that the old "spud" is of some importance now, & no wonder . . . It beats me how you have managed to get so many varieties of veges, fruit & flowers into that 50x19S. You've done marvellously well! . . . Thanks sincerely to the old "water-rats" of White Horse for their Kind Wishes. Please reciprocate on my behalf. Not surprised that you saw none of the Recha's @ the Baths. The only ones I know of who are still @ Home of my age are Dick Burn, Ossie Golding (married last year to Miss Cross of Narellan - I've been to her place on my "bike" & met her folk) & of course, "Our Harry". There may be one or two others but I cannot recollect. Those now constituting the good old Club are mostly all strangers to me & are [?] lads - so I learn. . . .. Pleased to learn that the Council have @ last under -</p><p> </p><p>PTO to 5 [in bottom left hand margin]</p>