Series 03: Marie Rose Martin nee Livesey letters, 26 December 1911-22 November 1922 - Page 90
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[Page 90]
"Summer Hill"
Jurby
Sulby
I.O.M.
December....21st 1919
My dear Harry....
Here we are enjoying or deploring! our shortest day - whilest your sunny Isle is enjoying it glory summer. Well, well. I can't say I altogether deplore the shortest day either.
Just at the moment we are all sitting about the fire drinking tea - & enjoying mothers best hand at apple cake! and it is all very happy and cosy, even if its not summertime.
Well, we are all going along more or less as usual. Mother wrote you the other day and, I fancy, spoke of my not being well. Neither have I been so well just lately - but am now getting as strong as ever again... As soon as the new year turns I'm going to have something of a holiday... that will set me up again entirely.
Grandma Livesey is a perfect treat... She keeps us splendidly entertained. There's practically no work extra worth speaking of.... and of course we are being well paid for having the old lady here... In fact the whole affair is proving more jolly than anything else.
We've had your letters from time to time, Harry, alright. We are always very pleased to have them