Aus No 407499,
Sgt Goode RM
C/o South Australia House,
Marble Arch
London W.1.
?/2/42.

Dear Everybody,

Am now at a Training Unit in the North of England. We spent the last month in Ireland doing practically nothing, & have been posted to this station to do a difficult course ten days late, & to catch up are going from 7:45 AM to after 8P.M. some nights & no day off in the week. Am very tired have been flying this afternoon & had to go back tonight for two hours lectures.

You either do nothing in the R.A.F. or do everything in a H--- of a hurry, without the least organization of any kind.

While in Ireland I visited Belfast several times, dozens of beggars even came into Cafes & went from table to table asking for money, they didn’t want food were well fed. A large number of the Irish women wear a rug over their shoulders, looks rather strange. Ice covers any water here all day, & any water under 4 inches deep is frozen solid, a hot water tank overflowing at the top drips formed long ice forms very like the cacti in the front garden.

Got the first papers from Auntie Ted this morning, the Walkabout was dated November 1st. These & one express from home are the only papers I’ve received so far.

Hope everyone is well at home,

Love, Ray