Jerry
that is the most beautiful letter,what a delight your mother must have been.I am looking forward to reading the book.
thank you for sharing these lovely memories.
By the way, we celebrated mother and fathers 65th wedding anniversary last evening with a family supper, dad told us about the wedding, he was on leave from the RAF, but got recalled the day before the wedding to be posted overseas, mothers family had to cancel the arrangements. When he reported for duty the WAAF officer said that the boat had actually sailed!! So he was given three weeks extra leave. He phoned the ARP( air raid patrol) station where my grandfather was a warden and said the wedding was back on and travelled back to London in time for the service the next morning. He spent Christmas leave with grandma and grandpa while the bride had to return to the RAF station in the north of England where she was stationed, then in the new year dad was sent off abroad.
Wendy