Aus No 407499,
Sgt Goode RM
C/o South Australia House,
Marble Arch
London W.1.
14/5/42.

Dear Everybody,

Have just been on leave, spent a few days in London, & then went down to North Devon, to Mr & Mrs Rockash, farmers near Bideford. They were good hearted but casual people, meals at all hours, but some of the best meals we've had. Quite a lot of milk to drink & even had fresh eggs for breakfast. Did a bit of farming, drove a tractor, fed pigs, calves, fowls, & ducks, & planted spuds. A South African Sailor & I went down together, we both enjoyed our stay.

The fields are fenced in by banks about 3 feet 6ins high & a hedge grows on top of the bank, the banks were covered in green grass, & smothered in Primroses & violets, by bringing your hands together you could pick a bunch of violets. Miles & miles of them ferns, strawberries & flowers.

One day we went & saw a little place called Clovelly, the country was beautiful covered in Blue Bells & here & there a bright flower in between. Clovelly is a small village built on the side of a cliff, two stories high houses the roof of one just comes up to ground of the next, so steep that supplies are taken down by sledge, & up by donkey, the old stone warf at the bottom was built in 1215, & a Hotel is built on the end nearest the land of the warf, is called the Red Lion, is about 700 years old. Westward Ho is just near Clovelly & I've bought a door knocker the Ship Cutty Sark.

Have some fluid on my left inner ear its about cleared up now. Am still at Silloth don't know when I'll be shifted, am getting tired messing about.

Will write later in the week & tell you about the places I saw in London. Have quite a bit of sunshine lately, & is still quite light at 10.30PM.

Love, Ray