Evesham
Dec 2/96
My Dear Kathleen,
While Mother and Ethel have gone to a concert at Evesham I may as well write to you, I have just finished a letter to Georgie and will send yours on to him at the same time.
Cyril I can hear singing away in bed, he undressed himself and, I just went up to take away his lights and hear his prayers, his cold has about disappeared and his black eye is nearly gone at last.
Jack is keeping me company he did not much care to go to the concert. Your hens actually laid eleven eggs last month, an unprecedented feat for November. I have had to make quite a fuss with Mrs Evans about her fowls they were clearing off every scrap of green stuff in our garden as usual, however at last they are putting up some high wire netting on their fence and gate, which I hope will do away with the nuisance.
We are interested to hear about your play. I hope one or both of the Aunties will be able to come, were you able to ask each to bring a companion, if not and one should decline and one accept you might perhaps ask that one to bring a second. I have been running through the “Princess”, I hope the “Daughters of the Plough” will give a mighty shove when they push the Prince and his companions through the gates!
Your composition letter has not yet turned up. I hope you will be able to secure a high place the last week, however I think you have done quite creditably for the first term and perhaps you may come out well in the examination. Are you in the highest class for mathematics? I always forget somehow.
Jack will have a break in work from Dec 7th to Jan 11th however he will go on with some things for part of the interval, at any rate, he rather likes his shorthand and is getting on with it. My bicycle is repaired, but now the roads are muddy again, Jack can ride it a little.
I think I must leave any other news for Mother to give to May.
With much love to you both
I remain
your affectionate Father
Julius Sladden
