Seaford April 7 1918

Dear Folks

I am writing you all these few lines hoping to find you all well as it leaves me so at present. I received the letter with Jims enclosed a few day ago. I have the address allright now we have been here about a month now we will go on our leave in the course of a week or so
At the present time we are drilling pretty hard we get up at half past five breakfast at half past six physical drill 7 o clock and then 15 minute to fix up for dress inspective and then drill till 12 o clock get dinner and line up at 15 after one till half past four I tell you we are pretty tired supper at 5:30 then we have to clean up our equipment we are all busy from the time we get up till lights out 15 to ten talk about farming is not in it with soldiering give me half a dozen cows to milk befor breakfast and after supper in preference to cleaning brass. For our meals we get coffee without sugar, mush sweetened though stew and two slices of brown bread white bread I have not seen since we landed for dinner we get potatoes stew and carrots or turnips and a little pudding for supper we get tea bread stew potatoes and a small pie of sweetend bread and then at half past eight we can get a bowl of soup and a piece of bead sweet stuff such a candy is a thing of the past if you ever send me any parcels lesure to regisiter them as some of the boys get theirs lost if they are not registered don't send me any tobacco I suppose you will be pretty well one with the spring work the weather here is not quite as warm as it is around home at the sometimes, I was under the impression that England was overcrowded with buildings but I have seen more farms here than there is around home for instance right on the side of the camp there is a gasoline tractor flowing.

There is a couple of the Mottishaw boys here one is an instructor he has been here quite a while I did hear the Victoria Bunch was in London but I think it must be a rumor.

It does not matter what I am doing there is always a longing you cant forget Vancouver was a picnic but sometimes I wish they would send us to the front so that it would be over with one way or the other you get so disgusted.

I was sorry to hear Jim broke his arm I guess it would be as well if he came back to the coast. Hopping that Ma and Pa . are keeping well there is one thing you will always get enough to eat every Sunday we get rabbit stew for dinner I often think of Jim when we get the rabbit when I landed here I weighed about 148 lbs. so you can tell how we;; I stood the trip [?] balloons and seaplanes are as common as Eagles at home. I signed 15 of my pay to pa on the train before we go into Halifax so he wants to see that he gets it we have only received one pound since we landed but we will go on our leave as I am writing this you will and 15 minutes ahead of Van. The clock was shifted back 1 hour to save daylight well this is all this time hoping to hear from you all soon I wrote one letter since we landed you know I would have phoned over before I left but we did not know till the last minute. I did not go to see Brodbents as they day I was going to see them we were all confined to barracks so the only person I seen was a the insurance agent he was there just because I owned him 2.80 so I payed him anyway I did not care I was glad in a way with love to all from Sam address plain