Undated<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a fair journey. My trunk and box both arrived very safely last night. I will send the box back soon. There is one thing I have forgotten to bring and that is a red note-book in the sitting-room on a chair. Please could you send it as soon as possible as I must have it. If it isn\u2019t on the chair it may be under it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another thing I have forgotten is my Spotter\u2019s Club membership card. It is on the mantelpiece in Dennis\u2019 room near the book-case. Could you please send it soon. I am sorry I forgot these but I usually forget a lot more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n September 30th<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am very happy here and getting on well in my work and I have played one game of rugger so far and that was to-day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sunday<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am wearing one of my new shirts and it is very comfortable and VERY warm indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I saw something this morning which I think will interest you, if it doesn\u2019t make you cry. It was that 30,000 bottles of brandy, intended for export, had been burnt in Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sandwiches which I had on the train were very good indeed. So were the cake and biscuits, which were in my trunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term probably ends on the 14th of December. School Certificate Exams start on the 30th November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t think I told you but I am in Colts game in rugger.\u00a0 If I get into the team I will miss seeing Denis Corkery 1<\/a><\/sup><\/strong> because he said he was going to come over here for the Wellington match (He was at Wellington) and on the same day Colts have got an away match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am going to have some Partridge for tea, because Soames shot two the day before he came back and they have been cooked to-day and the smell in here is lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Undated<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n My apples arrived yesterday. They are very good indeed. I think they are Worcester pomaines. You could send me the man\u2019s address so I can send back the crate to him, or doesn\u2019t he want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a game of rugger yesterday. I enjoyed it very much more than I did last week. I am getting on quite well in my work and I got two pluses this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 15th<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear Mummy and Daddy and the Snottie if he\u2019s still at home.2<\/a><\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0 (Dennis was on leave changing ships, leaving the Ramillies but not knowing what his next posting would be.\u00a0 Snottie is a rude word for midshipman.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you and all the family of egg-layers and hair-scatterers (Simon3<\/a><\/sup>) are all very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am very well and getting on fine in everything. I got 5 pluses this week and took the list to the Warden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, Jealous of you and your car rides to Abergavenny and the Red-Lion.\u00a0 I think it is disgraceful; I do really!!!!!!\u00a04<\/a><\/sup><\/strong>.\u00a0 I am glad the car is still in working order, if Dennis has been driving all the time.\u00a0 I hope the dog enjoyed it.\u00a0 Did you climb up either of my mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have started rugger in earnest this week and I have played about 4 games. I am probably going to be in Colts team, but I don\u2019t know definitely yet. I am glad you made some crab-apple jam; is there any left, or has Dennis eaten it all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 21st<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n I got six pluses this week and am taking the list to the warden to-morrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I nearly got into Colts team for the match to-day but didn\u2019t quite. I did not mind much not being in the team as it wasn\u2019t a very interesting match and we were easily beaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Friday there was a Junior Social Rugger match against the social called Cocks which we won 24-0.\u00a0 I was playing and scored 1 try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 29th<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n I only got four pluses this week but I am taking the list to the Warden again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I forgot to tell you but I managed to get a pair of size nine rugger boots, so I won\u2019t need Dennis\u2019s. I have played quite a lot of rugger this week and I have enjoyed myself. There was another Junior Social match on Friday, against Easons which we won 8-3, although we had our two best men missing. I played in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday I went to Oxford and got a book to the value of 10\/- for my form prize.\u00a0 If I hadn\u2019t tied top I would have been able to get one to the value of \u00a31.\u00a0 I got a book called \u2018Just Dogs\u2019 by C.F.Barker.\u00a0 It is full of lovely sketches by him.5<\/a><\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0 (I was mercifully ragged for choosing such a mundane book when I should have been selecting something highbrow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a good tea this afternoon consisting of some very good pilchards, some toast and treacle and plums and they were very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am having a very enjoyable time this term and am very happy and getting on well in everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 8th<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week has been quite a good week as it was All Saints week-end and all the Old Radleians, who can come, come down. Also all the masters give a play, which I saw last night; it was very, very good indeed and very funny indeed. It was more or less a whole holiday yesterday, but in the middle of the morning we had another Junior Social match against Southams which we lost 14-nil and in the afternoon there was a 1st XV match V the O.C.T.U. at a place called Purbright which we won 24-nil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am getting on quite well in all things and quite happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 18th <\/span>6<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a lovely time seeing you and I really, throughly enjoyed it all. Did you have a nice time in London, with luch with Uncle Lionel at Fracasti Botoms? <\/p>\n\n\n\n There was a Colt\u2019s match on Thursday against Wellington which we lost 11-0 nil, and another on Saturday, to-day, against Eastbourne which we won 3-0 nil.\u00a0 I did not play in either of them.\u00a0 The other Colts matches have been cancelled and so I shall be able to see Denis Corkery here on December 2nd, you remember before there was an away Colt\u2019s match that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I got on well in my work this week and got 5 pluses and am taking the list to the Warden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you had any more news from the Pilot-Officer in the land of the Canadians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The night before last it rained very hard and my cubicle got flooded. I do not know if it was due to that or to my walks with you but I think I have got a bit of a chill and have been off games for the last two days. I feel perfectly O.K. and will be allright soon, so don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A thing I must tell you is that my Daks, the old one\u2019s of Dennis, have gone, well and truly in the seat, so I don\u2019t think they can stand much more use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Undated<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have quite recovered from my cold now. The cake was very good indeed thank you, but it went very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am taking the School Certificate beginning on Thursday. I do hope I do well. I feel quite confident about passing, but I want to try and matriculate (i.e. get 5 credits)<\/p>\n\n\n\n December 3rd<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The exams which I have done so far are \u2018English Language\u2019 which was quite easy on the whole; Elementary Maths I which was also easyish and the Practical Chemistry exam which was good fun and very easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I got my hair cut on Friday and it was cut very well, for a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have got my sweet coupons now, which I\u2019m very please about. I haven\u2019t got this months rations but have got next, which means 1 \u00bd lbs of sweets which isn\u2019t too bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did not manage to see Denis Corkery as I discovered the match v Wellington was away and not here, and I sent him a telegram not to come. On Tuesday there was a Junior Social match against Patons which we drew 0-0. On Thursday there was the last Junior Social match against Watkins which we won 28-0 nil. I scored one try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is going to be a steeplechase on Tuesday, it is only about two miles long. I am going in for it. I hope I get on well. The 1st eight people in count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is only a very short time till I come home to see the sea, the seaside, the sands, Simon, Llancarreg, the hens, some fresh eggs!! and You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Undated<\/span> – Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am writing this during an exam as I have finished it. Don\u2019t get worried, I think I\u2019ve done quite well in it. We have had a lot of our exams this week and there are only six more left now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think I am doing quite well in the exams but I don\u2019t really know, I can\u2019t tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the steeplechase on Tuesday there were 144 people going in for the junior one (under 16) and I came in ninth, which isn\u2019t too bad, but, what is annoying, only the first eight people get places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am probably buying a desk this term for about 25\/- but I don\u2019t know yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I very much doubt if I shall play any more rugger this term. I am going to send my bicycle home as it needs repairing badly and I doubt if it worth keeping it really but I shall send it home and see. I haven\u2019t got any exams to-morrow and so am going home with another boy for the morning. It is very nice and near the end of term now isn\u2019t it? only about 5 more days till I see you. I shall come home on the 14th<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winter Term 1944 Undated I had a fair journey. My trunk and box both arrived very safely last night. I will send the box back soon. There is one thing I have forgotten to bring and that is a red … Continue reading