TCD MS 10247/1/833 folio 2 verso
blaze & continued to burn as it was handed round, Certainly the Canadians are a real goodheart jolly set –
I am really quite getting on at signalling – there was a test this morning on the buzzer – (morse – short & long buzzes) – I read messages correctly up to 8 words a min. & got most of one sent at 10 – Of course a good signaller will read up to 30 or 40 a min but that takes months if not years of practise
Today the weather has changed again – the wind has dropped & it is quite mild, but soft steady rain has been falling all day, of course we’d rather have sun & bright days but its a very gt improvement on the continuous high wind & snowstorms we were having up to last week, as you say its a bit heartbreaking being away from the battery just when things start waking up, it will be intensely interesting when I return next Sund to see what has happened – Of course then I shall be all behindhand wh is the worst of it I expect they’ve had a pretty busy time now this letter has rambled on painfully