25th June 1944. 37 Chesham Place, London SW1
Darlings [Laura’s six siblings],
My life seems to go on very much the same. I broke my record by having a tummy upset the day before D-Day.
D-Day sent my temperature up. [They] plugged M&B [antibiotic] down me, which made me feel like a damp piece of fawn-coloured blotting paper!
So I missed D-Day and Lady R [Lady Reading, Laura’s boss in the WVS] celebrating her CBE, and got back to the office when all the excitement was over, and when everyone decided they hadn’t time to communicate with us, so there really wasn’t much to do, and I nearly chewed my typewriter into shreds, longing to be a WRN driving a picket boat, or something of the
