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<p>a4701810.html</p><p>4./&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#39;s a bit of a relief for me here to switch off on to Father&#39;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.&nbsp; .&nbsp; . . The continued glowing a/cs. you supply me as to the lovliness of the garden &amp; orchard are tr&eacute;s bon.&nbsp; .&nbsp; .&nbsp; Fancy the pumpkins &amp; other climbers growing so swiftly &amp; covering almost everything.&nbsp; It shows that the soil of &quot;Warrnambool&quot; must be very rich, good!!&nbsp; Grand to know that you do not have to rely on greengrocers for most vegetables.&nbsp; What a saving!!&nbsp; Joves, but it is splendid!&nbsp; Mention of vege&#39;s. reminds me that we as &quot;Soldats&quot; (soldiers) have been making the pommes-de Terre (potatoes) laugh since we came to this part of the Front.&nbsp; There were &quot;bocoo&quot; (plenty) in the Village &amp; barns - which are now deserted so rather than see them go to waste we got busy with our knives &amp; made &quot;Chips&quot; - to augment our Army ration of eternal &quot;stoo&quot; &amp; bisquit.&nbsp; Our frying pans were manufactured from petrol-tins, or any likely container, &amp; the fat or grease was &quot;bludged&quot; from our &quot;Babblin&#39; Brooks&quot; (cooks) so the rest was easy - &quot;stoking up&quot; &amp; the eating part.&nbsp; Others in their search for &quot;mungy&quot; (food) went a little further in their investigations about the Farm houses &amp; barns, &amp; soon there were a multitude of little fires going for their lives in the yard, on which, had one been a keen detective, he&#39;d have smelt: &quot;chook&quot;, tame-rabbit, &amp; pork - &amp; other stuff.&nbsp; (It&#39;s the wonder that the fires &amp; smoke did not &quot;bring-the-flies&quot; (Fritz&#39;s shells), but I s&#39;pose the mist was a bit too thick for him to penetrate or there&#39;d have been some reminder from him that the War was still on, that he was playing, &amp; as were we.&nbsp; Anyhow it ended good-O.)&nbsp; The chipped potato craze is still going strong &amp; is likely to, so long as the grease &amp; vegetable lasts.&nbsp; Guess we&#39;ll be able to make a mess of your nice clean stove pots &amp; pans, Mother, when we get back to you, tho. I&#39;d rather not take the risk of turning out any of my amateur cooking there, because - well, it&#39;d be terrible rough &amp; you mightn&#39;t survive the shock.&nbsp; Ha! ha!! . . . The &quot;Mungy&quot; (food) question in once(?) Fair Albion is still acute (for the masses I s&#39;pose) &amp; the &quot;Heads&quot; are imploring everyone to go in for potato culture as a means to help keep the cruel wolf from the door.&nbsp; There&#39;s no doubt but that the old &quot;spud&quot; is of some importance now, &amp; no wonder . . .&nbsp; It beats me how you have managed to get so many varieties of veges, fruit &amp; flowers into that 50x19S.&nbsp; You&#39;ve done marvellously well! . . . Thanks sincerely to the old &quot;water-rats&quot; of White Horse for their Kind Wishes.&nbsp; Please reciprocate on my behalf.&nbsp; Not surprised that you saw none of the Recha&#39;s @ the Baths.&nbsp; 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&#39;ve been to her place on my &quot;bike&quot; &amp; met her folk) &amp; of course, &quot;Our Harry&quot;.&nbsp; There may be one or two others but I cannot recollect.&nbsp; Those now constituting the good old Club are mostly all strangers to me &amp; are [?] lads - so I learn.&nbsp; . . ..&nbsp; Pleased to learn that the Council have @ last under -</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PTO to 5 [in bottom left hand margin]</p>

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