Wednesday, 22 March, 1944 - Stan's 25th Birthday

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Sergt S. Bristow
Headquarters,
15 L of Signals
Cen Med Forces                                                                           126.

22 Mar 44

My Very Own Darling,

I didn’t manage to get down to writing to you yesterday evening, so I thought I would utilise my lunchtime today.

By now you should have got my “sermon” of two days ago and have digested it.  I hope that I didn’t put anything in it that has annoyed you.

Well, as you see by the date, to-day is my birthday.  I didn’t realise that it was so until about 11 a.m. this morning when I started dating some letters I had written.  I am afraid that after the age of about 13 – 14 birthdays lose a lot of their glamour, don’t they?  It would be different if I had a big birthday kiss from you to look forward to sometime during the day, but as that’s not possible, there’s nothing different about to-day from another other old day!  I am looking forward however to the many happy birthdays we will spend together in the future Darling, with all the old trimmings that you mentioned in your last letter.

I had a letter from Mother yesterday.  She told me all about your recent visit to No. 19 and if I told you all the nice things she told me about you you would blush, so I won’t tell you.  I think Mother and Dad think almost as much about you as I do (if that’s possible).

She tells me you look very sweet in your new yellow and brown frock, and of course that only made me wish more and more that the war would finish quickly so that I could come home to you, Darling.  I miss you very much Darling, and more so when you and Mother write of your doings in Grimethorpe.  From what Mother tells me you had quite a good afternoon rummaging in cupboards etc.!!

 There’s not much to tell you about my doings during the last week.  I paid my weekly visit to the Opera two or three nights ago and saw “Madam Butterfly”.  It is one of my favourites.  The second act in which Butterfly sings “One Fine Day” whilst waiting for her lover to come back from America was absolutely grand.  Of course having to spend so long apart from you Darling, and knowing just how agonising it can be waiting for the day to dawn when we shall meet again, makes one appreciate the spirit of the song to its full extent.   

By the way I am sending off a couple of parcels to-day, one with lemons in it and one containing almonds.  I am addressing the one with the almonds in to you and the lemons to Mother, so that you will have to share the contents of both boxes if and when they arrive.  I thought it a better idea than mixing them both together, for if the lemons go mouldy, they would make the nuts bad too.

Hooray!!  The Post N.C.O. has just been in and given me a letter with the most-looked for postmark.  Yes, it’s Nottingham, so for the rest of my birthday I shall be very happy.

Your letters make such a difference to my life, Darling.  They are the brightest spot in a usually dull existence.  Many’s the time that I bless the bloke who invented the postal system, even though it does cause us both annoyance at times.

Well, now that another letter has arrived from you I have enough material to write about to fill another air letter so I must scrounge around and see if I can unearth one from somewhere.  Had some good news yesterday.  Our ration of AMLCs is to be increased from one per week to three every two weeks, so that means there’ll be more to use to write to the sweetest girl I know and the one whom I love more than anyone else in the world.

No more room to-day, so until next time, keep my love.  Always yours Stan  xxxxxxx

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