| Description | EHS describes the weather and says he found "yours and Pips letters" when he got back yesterday. Cross, the major of his next battery dined with them and then they listened to the gramophone, some priceless records sung by McCormick [McCormack?], that made EHS think of "old Dodo". One of the fellows, Dixon, danced on the lid of a box; EHS reminds his wife of the dancers they saw at the Hippodrome ; also music from Zig Zag. Cross used to be at Weymouth and knows the รก Becketts and Smythes, and is "a real soldier, like all the young battery commanders are". Garratt has been posted off to another battery so EHS is in command again. He hopes they won't get anyone stuffy, they have been lucky; Garratt was a fine chap. EHS told Hambly about what his wife had called Baba when he shied away from cold water [presumably the "Charlie"/ Charles he goes on to mention] - there is "no love lost" between Hambly and "Charlie (as we call the old bird)". He is sending the tax man's letter back. He asks his wife to thank Pip for her letter. |