Now here is another letter from my brother Sid, dated Octember the Swifth.
My dear Jack,
Here I am again and I hope you are too. It must be some years now since I wrote to you but the missus ran off with the lodger in 1945 and took the pencil with her. She had always been threatenin' to leave me but it was some time before I could get her to promise. The lodger was a nice chap, though, only he took my darts. However the missus came back again last week, which was good thing as there was quite a lot of washin' up accumulatin' in four years.
Ivy and Herbert have just had another baby under the new scheme and they asked me to go along and see the little stranger. They asked me what I thought it was. Well, I got it in three guesses. Herbert says it will be a Member of Parliament when it grows up because it can say so many things that sound good and mean nothing.
Our cousin Alf, who was a commercial traveller, is now travelling in ladies' underwear, and he don't 'alf look silly.
Do you remember the cat we called George? Well, it had kittens on the Antimacassar the other day, so now we call her Georgina. I am waiting up to put her out but she hasn't come in yet.
Nearly every house in our road has a television ariel now and it adds quite a tone to the district. Some of them are even thinkin' of having television sets. The missus says she doesn't want a set, 'cause it's bad enough to have to listen to some of them wivout having to see 'em as well.
Well, I think that is all the news for now,
except to tell you that we have moved into a new house next to the glue factory
so there is always an 'orrible smell
From your lovin' brother Sid
PS we 'ave a very good Town Council: you only 'ave to write to 'em if you want anything you 'aven't got and they write back and tell you how you can do wivout it.
Well, ta-ta for now