Stan and Grace

G.H.N. 1.5.44 My Own Darling, What a climate ours is!   Yesterday was a beautiful day and quite warm but today it is very windy and just like a March day.   However, it is not raining so that is something to be thankful for. I have just seen Nan off on the bus.   This is the first chance I have had of seeing her since she came down to Nottingham a fortnight ago.   We went to the “Granary” for tea – remember the place?   We then decided to go to the pictures and saw Mary Astor and John Bales and several other famous stars in “Thousands Cheer”.   It is an American film and was chiefly about the American Army.   The Colonel’s daughter entertained the troops and fell in love with a private.   It was quite a good show. Kit is on day duty at last, for which she is well and truly thankful, though the   Sister is on holiday and Kit is having to do her duties which she does not like.   She never gets off duty before 9 p/m unless it is h...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow Headquarters 15 L of C Signals Cen Med Forces 28 Apr 44                                                                                       141. My Own Precious Darling, Your letter announcing the arrival of the cafe “snaps” turned up yesterday to shed a little brightness onto an otherwise boring day.   So glad you liked them.   I thought they were quite good.   It’s a bit of a change to get a good photograph of myself. So you claim to be one of these people who’s moods are governed by the weather.   Well, ...

G.H.N.                                                                                (122) 27-4-44 My Own Darling, I have just returned from spending a couple of days at home.   You can imagine how thrilled I was to find two air letters and a sea letter waiting for me.   One air letter you had written on the 16 th of April and the other on the 19 th .   Your sea letter you had written on the 2 nd of this month and in it you had enclosed the enlargement of one those snaps you sent me.   Thank you for it Darling.   I liked those snaps better than any you have had ta...

2364226 Sergt. S. Bristow, Headquarters, 15 L of C Signals                                                                            139. Cen Med Forces 25 Apr 44. My Very Own Darling, Well I arrived back yesterday from my 400 mile trip, very dusty & with a few bruises for a combination of a 3 ton lorry & the Italian roads makes one's ride a bit rough at times. There’s not a lot I can write about regarding the trip.   The countryside looked very beautiful & fresh, the apple, peach & cherry blossom adding a dash of colour to the fresh springlike greenness of the fields.   There were...

G.H.N. Sunday 23-4-44 My Very Own Darling, I was very pleased to receive the photograph you promised me.   I think that it is quite good and it is now sitting in the middle of my dressing table.   I wonder if you have received mine yet.   Yours only took ten days to come.   A sea letter in ten days!   Not bad is it?   I love receiving recent letters from you. Today is my half day.   It is another beautiful day and quite warm.   I would like to go for a nice long walk but I have not got the energy so here I am lazing on my bed and writing to you.   Maybe I will go out this evening as my friend will be off duty at 5 p/m. All being well, I shall be going home this coming Tuesday until Thursday.   You see my week-end is due when Sister is away so I am making sure of it and having my time off before her holidays. I was sorry to hear about Paul*.   I wonder what can have happened to his fiancée?   I can well imagine how...

G.H.N. 20-4-44 My Own Darling, An air letter and a sea letter arrived from you yesterday so I consider it was my lucky day. The sea letter was the one containing the snaps you had taken in the cafe.   I think that they are very good ones.   Have you sent any home?   If not I will take these when I go again. How is it that a fountain pen never lasts long with me?   I have broken this nib and it is really a nightmare trying to make it scratch this letter to you.   Yes, I know that I need not try and put the shame of my bad writing on to this broken pen nib and I also know that it cannot make it much more illegible than it usually is.   (Thought that I would save you the trouble of passing a few sarcastic comments). Vera decided to surprise me yesterday.   She baked me one of her special malt loaves.   My friends here and myself certainly appreciated it. Ah! That is better – a friend has lent me her pen. I may probably be going home n...