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1939 pre war

17th Aug 1939

Numbered 103. Post marked Elie Fife 17 Aug 39
addressed to R. Helme Esq, 34 Albert Road, Colne, Lancs

The Manse, Kilconquhar, Fife

17th Aug Thurs

My darling Ronald,

I am instructed to write in a small close hand, as this Adile’s paper, and she wants me to leave some! She wants to know how I can find so much to say to you when I write everyday. Well, honey, I don’t find any difficulty. Firstly, I love you, secondly, I know that whatever I blether about you’ll be interested, and thirdly, when I’m writing to you , I feel nearer to you than when I’m just thinking about you.

It is a great strain to write so closely, and what makes things more difficult is the fact that I’m sitting in the deck chair, and writing on my knees. This is the first time I have managed to bag the deckchair. Moué and Pam have gone to Gail(*) with Dad, Uncle Stan and Grace, and Adile and Marj. are messing about the house. So once more I am alone… I could say lonely and unloved, but you see, I know I’m not unloved!

… A short pause while I get a cushion and my cardigan.

Well, darling boy, I am still missing you, and still loving you, and still cuddling your gansay, gansie or gansy – at night. It is a lovely thought: you having slept in the same bed so recently. I shall in all probability stay there and let Bill sleep on a couch, as it will be so much easier for him as he has no clothes to shift. Anyway, he offered to sleep in the garden, so surely a couch is one better.

I am wearing my celtic ring today, and I wore it yesterday with my celtic bracelet, and they look lovely together. Daddy gave me the bracelet, and he asked me who gave me the ring. When I told him he gave me such a knowing little grin.

Well, we went over to Dollar yesterday afternoon, and the Walkers are really very very nice. Mrs Walker is very bright – and not a scrap like George. There were their grandchildren there, and they were all full of life, and really fascinating – so I don’t know where George has got his nature from. They have a nice house and a beautiful garden with a little wooded glade attached to it where there are daffodils, snow drops and white lilies in the Springtime. There is a photo of George as a young school boy, and believe it or not, he looks really attractive! His mother seems very very fond of him, but then, what mother isn’t fond of her son! They are coming over here sometime soon.

You will be sorry to hear that my left foot has gone flat since I was at Edinburgh. It aches under the in step. I think it is those white and blue shoes. What I want is some really good sports shoes with thick crepe soles. But I’ll have to go on waiting for awhile.

I haven’t been to Ian Reeby (*) yet, but I suppose I shall be in Elie this afternoon. Oh honey, I wish you were here to go in with me. Can’t you come back. There’s a spare bed in the attic, and if the worst came to the worst (or the best to the best) you could always come in beside me.

The Craven Canine Assoc. is having a Sauction(*) Show in your Drill Hall at Skipton on the 26th Aug. Isn’t it a shame I shant be there. But there is to be another in a month or two, so I suppose it will be in the Drill Hall too. So that will be a thrill for me – yes? I see there is a Sir Donald Harsfall cup for Irish and Airdale terriers. Has he any special interests in these breeds do you know? There is a cup for Pointer and Setters – and one for all sporting dogs.

Wait till we get our bitch, sweetheart, then we’ll have some silver to clean!

I don’t know when I shall know how I’m getting to Harrogate, but I suppose I shall get some how; and you must certainly come. Prince will be very hurt if you don’t as he tells me you are his hero. I’m afraid I had to tell him that you were mine, but he took it quite nicely. One of the reasons he likes you is because you may help to get him a ‘girl’, but I think the real reason is that you make his Godmother so happy when you’re around!

I may risk a bathe today as it is such a lovely warm sunny day, but that doesn’t mean the water will be warm.

I’m so glad your mother thinks you’re a bit brown anyway.

News! Dad said to Marjory when looking at a photo of you “He’s a nice looking lad.” She has just told me, so it’s Stop Press News. Go and buy yourself a new hat.  Yours will surely be too small. The photo by the by is of you and me, and I think it’s very good. I am having a print done for you today – and one for myself. It is the one we posed for on Sunday, and is a side view taken by Marj. Moué’s front view of it has not been developed yet. We look really Mr & Mrs Helmish – all dolled up in our Sunday best. Fancy, it is the first photo we’ve had taken together – just the two of us.

The gardener is mowing the lawn in a very half hearted fashion. Dan and Uncle Stan tried to do it with the Manse lawn mower but it was quite impossible – so the gardener has brought up another which seems slightly sharper.

Give my love to Albert House when you pass, and tell it I shall be home fairly soon now. Tell that to yourself too, sweetheart; and don’t forget that wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, I am thinking of you and loving you – and that is just what I am going to go on doing for ever and ever.

And so honey the days when I’m away from you will soon be past, and I shall be home again to kiss and cuddle you.

All my love, darling, and a million kisses, Kathleen x

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