Letters from a Jersey Mother 1956-61

2 October 1960 My dear Len and Margaret This is Sunday afternoon, the weather is miserable and dull and colder. Dad has lit a fire in the front room. This is our first fire this Autumn, but I know that Rose who is always so cold is longing for a fire. She is having her bath and doesn’t know that she will have the pleasant surprise to see a fire when she gets in the room. Not that I think it will be warmer than with the stove but it will be a brighter outlook to see the blaze of a burning fire, it’s really what it amounts to . Many thanks for the two letters received one after the other, well I will say that I was a bit put out by the first letter on account that there was no mention about my unfortunate fall. This made me wonder if I had told you about it, but this kind of a happening, I could not have failed to mention it. I thought at first you had just forgotten but that you would speak on it on the next letter. Well the following day to the first letter received, ...

16 December 1958 My dear Len and Margaret At last here I am in the front room, it is now after 8 o’clock. Roselle and I have been chatting at the tea table for such a long time, after that I peeled my potatoes for tomorrow  and then I helped  Roselle to peel  some apples to make an apple pie for tomorrow’s dinner, anyway I will try to put down a few lines in this letter. I went to town this AM. When I got to town I went right away to Margaret’s for a cup of coffee, then she came with me to do my shopping. We only went to the RU Stores, it took us quite a long time there, I had my club books to finish. I had done half of them last week. With my club book I have been building up my food store, it’s coming up nicely. I have salmon, crabmeat, sardines, pilchards, corn beef, Unox, tongue, Snax, peaches, apricots, pineapple, and mandarin oranges. I think this is all the kinds I have and quite a number of each tin. I have also 3 tins of biscuits, 2 huge jars of hari...