{"id":559,"date":"2013-06-04T02:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T02:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=559"},"modified":"2013-06-26T21:16:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T21:16:52","slug":"neil-mother-5-jan-1918","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=559","title":{"rendered":"Neil \u2013 Mother: 5 Jan 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"

46th Gen Hosp
\n5-1-18
\nDear Mother,
\nI am out of bed now and practically better. I suppose I will be going into convalescent camp in a couple of days then to the base again and then up the line. I am not too confident about sleeping out in the snow. For if tent life starts my throat off, I am afraid open life will also. I wish to goodness the winter were over. Things would not be so bad but for the cold. But I expect if it were not cold we should find something else, lice for instance, to growl about. I should have had more sense than go to Victoria St just a year ago to-day. Have received no mail or anything from anybody (not even Trot) and that quickly induces “fed-up-ness”. The mail posted from N.Z. the last fortnight in October was sunk, but there must be a great deal of other mail following me around somewhere.<\/p>\n

Yours
\nNeil<\/p>\n