TCD MS 10247/1/836 folio 8 recto
[2 May 1917] Certainly its great luck the weather being so grand – our Officers Mess is at present a shell hole with a tarpaulin over it – sounds like real campaigning doesn’t it? but when one goes on to say that the hole has been more or less squared off and has a nice folding round table in the middle with a table cloth really if one didn’t look at floor or roof I might almost imagine myself at the little table at the Cottage; home again! All the men are in various extraordinary little shacks improvised all round, and as long as <the> weather lasts all are as comfortable as could be.
Certainly I think the result of all this business will be that when we’re all home again the little jobs that used to completely to prostrate us with