Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 76
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have done. But I can't quite forget & think right this absolutely rotten waste of such splendid material. When I see them marching in & also being taken down wounded, I nearly go mad & would cheerfully commit all the Germans to absolute but painful obliteration & some of our politicians too.
The weather is still splendid, mostly beautifully fine & quite hot days, which is quaint when you think a month ago we still used to have snow & ice.
We had rain last week but it laid the dust & brought on the hedges & trees which are now just glorious.
The villages are ruined & the gardens also so I don't see many flowers. Plenty of daisies & pansys & "bleedin 'eart" or dialecta spectabilis. You used to like it (or said you did) & I didn't.
I saw little Jack Heller the other day, he's getting taller. He asked after you so did