The memory book is progressing quite well,with lots of help from my cousins to fill the gaps.

On Sunday Billy and I took mum to Marks Hall to visit where she was from 1944 to the end of the war in the WAAF. We booked a "buggy" with a driver as mum would not be able to walk all round the estate and also after my experience at Easter in high heels a buggy sounded like a good option! The driver, Sandra, was brilliant .She didn't mind how many times mum told her " I used to March though these woods" and knew all about the war days and the Squadron that mum served with. We saw the memorial to the Glider Pilots and were amazed that mum could point out where her hut had been and the Officer's Mess where she worked.We picked a primrose ( naughty) to put in her memory book and marvelled at the beautiful bluebells that were in full bloom.

After a lovely lunch in a Tudor Barn we drove into Coggleshall the nearby village to look for the pub that mum and her pals visited on VE day and celebrated the end of the war dancing "Knees up mother brown" round a huge bonfire!!

Without mum's letters I would never have know where she had been or what she had been doing and it was lovely to see her remembering a distant youth after nearly 70 years!

Wendy