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I have your parcels OK, tobacco & beautiful socks, how I love them & swank round. Also received the cable Merry Christmas, quite weeks late but I'm very very pleased to know you were thinking of your 'umble. I told you I had Bob Metcalfe with me, a nice lad but I couldn't keep him. I had promised another fellow the job, an a very much older fellow & not too robust. I have seen Bob since & he has a slight cold (we all have) but is pretty fit.
We are in a pretty rotten place, not at work but most of us would prefer to be. These little villages aren't much good these days, its very wet & raw & cold even if we are having a mild winter compared to last. I am away from my usual place for a little while, rather pleased really. Living in an old chateau with old dungeons & secret passages & moats & things. Quite interesting or would be if I had time to explore but I'm frantically busy & have to walk 4 or 5 miles per day so the chateaux will have to wait.
I wish you were here & it were summer, it would be charming then, the view is simply gorgeous.
No I won't lecture you on your little escapades, as you so unmercifully remind me, I am not consistently able to do it. Besides what's the use.
Things are so mixed in this funny old world that I really don't know what to advise.
I'm scared of getting old myself & my time is much more limited than mine. Thats will why I did such a dash in Paris, oh yes it was a mad bad time, we have been back nearly a fortnight but I can't settle down & am still giggling at the