Feature Letter of August 23rd, 2025
Turpin, Geoffrey William Francis
The course is going very well. I can now talk with a certain amount of authority on splines, contact breakers and reduction ratios and such like. Only my vocabulary is strictly British, being an English school, with a touch of Cockney, because our instructor is a Cockney. Gas is petrol of course, mud-guards might be soldiers as far as they're concerned, because here they're wings. And a convertible coupé is a foursome drop-head. Or is this a tender subject now in Canada with gas rationing? I guess it is.
My civvy suit arrived at the regiment, but I havent got it yet. It should be very useful when it does arrive, and thank you very much for sending it.
By the way, some socks, if they are still possible, would be very, very useful. I'm getting pretty low and coupons are hard to come by. And, if you could send me some sock stretchers I could then beat my batman into washing my socks, instead of sending them to the local boiling and shrinking emporium.
Well cheerio and write often. Morale of the troops you know, although I know you're all pretty well tied up in work and things.
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