26 Sep 1943, W J Carrie's wartime diary

I had a lovely long lie this morning - till 7.30am - the hot water for tea was late. I didn't get to sleep till at least 2am so I slept on.  Just now I am "a'oot in a" having had 3-4 cups of hot tea - I can drink tea much hotter now than I used to.  No news about our local affairs yet but the news of the fighting in Russia and Italy too is magnificent.  We really are getting on and Germany will have to give in some time.  She may hold out through the winter but I rather doubt if she will.  Then we hear that things are moving out here and so quite a lot of people think we shall not be repatriated after all.  I think we will - even though we (Govt. people) may only have a month or so at home.  I pray and hope we are. I was very angry the other day - in one afternoon about 6 people commented on my loss of weight.  So I weighed myself next day - 118 lbs now!  I knew I was down and the shortest of walks makes one tired but I wish people wouldn't talk about these things.  It doesn't help!  I went to see Lin yesterday - she gave me a nice bookmark - just a slip of khaki cloth, frayed at the edges and W.J.C. sewn on it -very nice.
                          CheerO Darling for another day.       Billie.