Letters from a Jersey Mother 1956-61

8 April 1958 My dear Len and Margaret This is Tuesday eve. I'm making a little start on my letter to make sure that it started. Today has still been pretty cold, the sun came out for a little while this afternoon. At the moment for a change father is listening to the wireless. Wilfred Pickles and Mabel his wife, are in Alderney on the air there I don't know what they're talking about. I think it's 'Have a Go', of course dad is interested in Wilfred. This gives us a rest from TV. I have spoken too quickly,  Dad is already through with the Alderney programme which lasted only half an hour, now without taking any time TV is on. We had an Easter card from Cyril and Grace also a letter, Cyril is not too good, he is now getting out of breath when he walks to work. Well as you remember he was bad with thrombosis two or three years ago. Since then he has had to take things easy. Now that he has developed getting out of breath he decided to see the doctor ab...

1 April 1958 My dear Len and Margaret This is Tuesday eve and I’m making a start on your letter. I am not sure if it will go as usual on Friday (Good Friday). I think we will have to mail it on Thursday eve. We have been to St Peter this afternoon, this was our second visit this year. Uncle John is about the same. The only thing he is trying to stay in bed all day. Aunty has trouble to have him to get up, it would be a bad thing if he started not to get up. The weather has been colder today. There was a fog this morning which made it feel cold. Now that we are in April we will expect to have some nice sunny weather. On Good Friday afternoon Kay, Arthur, Jean and little Jane will call in time for afternoon tea. Jean and Jane go back to England on Tuesday and won’t return here before they go to Canada next month. Well now, I did not finish answering the news on your letter last week, but then I don’t really know on what I spoke, very likely I am going to say thin...