Saturday, 12 February, 1944

G.H.N.

12-2-44                             2 a.m.

My Very Own Darling,

I hope that the mail situation has improved since I last heard from you.  The postman still continues to call regularly over here.

I posted you a sea letter a few days ago but I suppose it will be some time before you receive it.

Only four more nights to work and then – home for six days.  We now get six instead of five nights off each month.  It is also Kit’s nights off and Ivy’s - a friend of ours.  She is coming home with us.  It is Kit’s birthday whilst we are at home so Ivy is staying with Kit and I am going to Sutton on the Friday.  We are all going over to Grimethorpe on the Saturday.

Kit is going back home the same night and Ivy is staying until Tuesday – when we are due back.

I am really due on day duty when we come back but as yet my fate still hangs in the balance.

You see, Matron was going to send me to do a spot of duty in Theatre but the Sister of the ward I was on previous to night duty has asked for me back on there to do Staff Nurse’s duties.   I will have to “wait and see”.

Wherever I go I shall not be unduly worried – that is a lie really.  When I think of Theatre duty it makes me go hot and cold.  However, it is no good meeting trouble half-way.

If I remember rightly, you once told me that you had seen the film “Dangerous Moonlight”.  It came to Nott’m: last week as a request film, so I left my bed a two-o-clock one afternoon to go and see it.  It is a beautiful picture.  It was worth getting up at 2 p/m for too Darling – if only to hear the Warsaw Concerto!!

Well, I suppose I really ought to get back to work – we had a death about half-an-hour ago.  It is the fifth and one birth in one week.

I still love you as much as ever my Darling and am patiently ? waiting for the day when you return.

Until that day you will have to be content with my love sent to you on paper – you have it all, Darling.  Always yours, Grace  xxxxxxxxx

 

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