Mrs Kenneth Penman
Maycot
12 Commonside
Keston
Kent

Postmark: Birmingham 13 Mar 1941 5:30PM
Stamp: 2½d blue King George VI
Postal slogan: [Wavy line cancellation]

Erdington

Thursday 13th

Darling

Just a short note, principally because the sun is shining, and I am coming home to you the day after tomorrow. It seems an age, the sun this morning is gorgeous, and last night with a full moon and no cloud was very fine too except that we were out until three, Jerry being up to his tricks. We managed however to bring a Ju 88 down which wasn’t too bad.

It seems probable darling that we shall get 6d a day proficiency…

…pay as from the 1st Nov. Lord knows when it will come along, the army is proverbially slow in these matters.

We have been indulging in mud larks during the last few days. We have been digging a large pit for one of our instruments and as the site lies on a slope it filled with water as fast as we worked. This necessitated laying a drain about 150 yards long into a brook, varying in depth from 5 feet to surface level. In order to economise labour the 5ft depth end was only about 12in wide, hardly sufficient to turn round in, far less to work, the result being the short ones got covered in mud almost…

…up to the chin.

There is very little news since my letter earlier in the week darling. I have been expecting to receive one from you but I’m not worrying about that seeing that I shall be with you very shortly now, with all my love until then and give Jill a hug from Daddy.

All my love, every bit

Kenneth