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	Breakfast	Lunch	Tea
Monday	Kellogg’s’ Corn Flakes, egg, bacon, fried bread	cold beef, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, gravy	fruit, jelly, cream
Tuesday	fried fish and potatoes	eggs boiled
Wednesday	fried potatoes, steak and kidney pie	salmon, salad
Thursday	fried liver, bacon, gravy	cold meat pie
Friday	stew, potatoes	Welsh rarebit
Saturday	sausage and cheese	Cornish pasties

We all dine together on Sunday. This is bumper day:

Breakfast	Lunch	Tea
grapefruit eggs, bacon, toast	beef or mutton, roast potatoes cabbage, cauliflower, peas	salad, cold ham or tongue fruit trifle, cream, rice pudding

That’s a typical week with the war on. I might add Mother is a fine hand at making steak and kidney pie. She likes baking. What do you eat?

I’m same as you, much immune from love. I once thought I was but afterwards I realized I wasn’t. Certainly when I saw her, my heart went boom-boom. How old was your dentist?

You’re certainly going to have a holiday. I don’t know whether I shall have a holiday this year. Dad thinks it’s not fair to go enjoying ourselves when men are fighting for our lives.

Do you let the chaps chase you or do you chase the chaps?

How do you like your men?

Do you like fishing?

You and yours keep well.

Yours,

Brian

It’s a lovely boiling hot day so I’m going to sit in the sun by the river and do a little fishing.

Across the Channel the Germans used that day’s good weather to launch their biggest attack on France yet. Many civilians abandoned their homes in a panicked exodus south. By the end of the week one sixth of the population of France was on the move. In Verneuil, just 100km west of Paris, Micheline, her mother and sister, Nicole, were caught up in the chaos and a week went by before Micheline was able to record the events in her diary.