{"id":397,"date":"2013-05-24T21:21:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T21:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2013-06-27T04:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T04:16:03","slug":"norman-mum-14-nov-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=397","title":{"rendered":"Norman \u2013 Mum: 14 Nov 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cambridge Hospital
\nAldershot
\n14th Nov 1917
\nDear Mum
\nWe start our seventh week at the hospital tomorrow and there is still no word of any move at present so it almost seems as if we can consider ourselves attached to the permanent staff. \u00a0We have been having an easier time this past week owing to the convoys arriving less frequently than usual and to our being left to sleep in for two nights while the R.A.M.C. men turned out. \u00a0We are looking forward to letters from home again next week ; \u00a0the last we have received were dated Sept 9th. \u00a0I got one from you, one from Dad and one from Gorrie, and Neil got the same I think. \u00a0We have heard no word from Charley or Alec for some time now, but we get letters from Vic regularly. \u00a0He seems to have no prospects of being sent oversea before Christmas. \u00a0Two days more and we shall have been three months in England so we cant complain of our luck so far. \u00a0The tucker continues to be moderately good and we get plenty of extras from the institutes and canteens. \u00a0The weather has taken a mild turn and it is fairly dry on the whole so things continue to be fairly comfortable. \u00a0There is really no news. \u00a0It is just the same monotonous routine day after day and the life is just about the most unexciting that I have ever led. \u00a0You were asking if my veins were giving any trouble. \u00a0Those in the legs are quite alright, but my arms may get me a holiday yet. \u00a0They are not serious, only a little annoying at times. \u00a0It is five months yesterday since we saw Cape Farewell drop below the horizon and we are looking forward to the day when we shall (see)<\/span> any bit of old N.Z. rise out of the water. \u00a0It may be a short time, it may be a long time, depending on which gang of guessers happens to be correct.
\nWe all hope for the former
\nTill the next letter<\/p>\n

Yours always
\nNorman<\/p>\n