Love and War in the WRNS by Vicky Unwin

Author:Vicky Unwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750964678
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

from Sheila

RNGHQ MEF

11/5

My dear Mama – I’ve just had your airgraph of the 10th April, but have had no mail from you for ages.

How nice the garden must be and I wish I was there to see it – you would love the flowers here – Just now the shops and street corners are banked with roses, carnations, arums, delphiniums, stocks and all sorts of gorgeously coloured flowers – men pester you in the streets to buy them late at night even. But we get no green – no grass or fields – just blazing colours and sand. Last Monday John suddenly appeared from out of the blue – on a course till Friday. I’m afraid we didn’t have a hilariously happy time, because all the time he was attacking me because I have been having such a gay time in Cairo. I’m afraid he expected me never to go out at all and to sit at home waiting for him! I tried to explain that I couldn’t do this after all, working as I do sometimes ten hours a day and with very little free time – I must enjoy myself while I can and get away from work and the YWCA. However, nothing seemed to be any good, and it all ended up in what one might call a free fight – him struggling with me to pull off my scarab ring which he gave me and which he succeeded in doing – nearly breaking my little finger into the bargain and me giving him a sound slap on the face for his pains. We did not part friends I can assure you. It all seems such a pity, but I couldn’t end my days married to someone so impassioned with jealousy so maybe it’s just as well. I have many regrets, now, especially when I look back on the tremendously happy times we had in Alex which are now a closed book. I often wonder if I shall ever go back there. Now I am away and it is so hot here (has been over 100 degrees in the shade last week) I remember our lovely bathing parties, riding, and visits to Eve Barber all so well. She is coming up here to stay next week, I hope. I have been sailing again this week, twice with Idwal Humphrey, whom I work with, and once with Bruce Booth Mason, in the army and a vague relation of Diana’s. He is the most amusing boy – Ula and I, and he and another person called Waddylove (yes, it’s true) all went to see a Polish Revue on Saturday – very good. Ending up at Shepheards with champagne and sandwiches at midnight. It had been the hottest day of the year so far and all I’d had to eat since breakfast was an ice cream, punctuated by glasses of lemon and orange! We’d had dinner, but that mostly consisted of fruit cup, you just can’t eat in the heat.

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