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commented on the lack of Chivalry shown by the men. The French girls said they had no time for their own men folk & seemed to take any others for preference.
8.1.18 Rudrun goes to hospital today.
8.1.18 Received a cake today from Mollie. It was slightly mouldy.
14.1.18 Received a wallet from the Y.M.C.A. Nice Souvenir. A Froggie is now driving the Dynamo. Out here they have a curious custom of engaging a man & his Engine just like we engage a man & his cart. Young Woolnough went sick yesterday.
18.1.18 Woolnough started again today. for the last 3 days, I have had the shop wiring (& camps 10 circuits) on a different Board every night & have had to explain the different circuits, Switches etc to my Froggie shift mate. In the same time I have cut in the Series field of the Dynamo (it [Indecipherable] had been running as a plain shunt machine previously). Every time Froggie came on Shift there was a new board & at least once a differently connected Dynamo. At the same time we were having trouble with the Japy (Froggies own machine). Between My Bad French – Froggies rotten English & the constant changes in the Wiring, Froggie was generally running in circles when I left. Froggie himself thought tonight was the limit, so he told the Corporal (Welsh) a little story