| #8 Fri Nov 28/41
As I continue these happenings as prisoner of war, I find myself way behind in my writings and as I continue, it is now Nov 28th. A lot has happened , not so much in events , but in my own personal life, that is to say character changes, so I will try and give up the gen today. As I have previously stated (because the writing is, my hands are very cold). John Moyle, a well bred and learned Scotsman age 28 and myself are combined together, or in other words, sharing our Red Cross parcels together, doing our cooking together and altogether living very good. He is one man here I tell everything to and we comfide in one another.
Now to give an idea of what we receive from the R.C. every week, I will detail today's parcel which John just received. We received 1 meat paste, 1 can of pies, 2 meat rolls, 1 tin of sardines, tin of jam, 1 bar of chocolate, bar of soap, 1 Irish Stew, 1 tin of powdered milk, sugar which varies but there are always seventeen articles. I received a tin of pudding, 1 tin of margarine and a package of dripping in mine yesterday.
#9 Sat Nov 29/41
I have learned to cook very well and we use our imagination a great deal, so get both good and bad concoctions but we have realized that no matter what it is our biggest problems are bread ( 1/5 loaf a day). Wood and nails are very much in demand and we treasure one nail here like we would a suit of clothes back home, it is very funny for things which we would place no value on outside, we value very highly here. |