November 15, 19571957-11-15
Good luck in your interview. If you are wholly at your ease - and why not? - all
will go well. But try to raise some sort of enthusiasm for your proposed career:
dont-care-ism doesn't go down well.
There's never been so wet a November since - since last time - but we
have had about three sunny days, and I even bathed three days ago at Can Floque. The best news is getting 3
bottles of butagaz smuggled from France,
which means no more dirty carbon in the kitchen until the supply gives out.
We hope to spend a few days in Austria with
Jenny on the way to Jugland, but she is all snarled up with
the Bevan libel case (on November
21st) & doesn't answer letters. She was very nice to Lucia and Juan
on the way through.
I expect my Goodbye To All That will create a stir again as it did in
1929 when it first came out - Canellun was built on the spoils. The
Sunday Express reviewer cabled could he fly out & interview me. I
cabled "yes: but you'll have to come out to Deya", & that's the last I've heard. The pups are eating raw meat
now & are very large & fat & active; Mother spends most of her time trying to make them make
little puddles on the Baleares.
Castor is trimming the trees in the garden; the oranges
nearly ripe. The stupid lilac thinks it is spring & is flowering like the pear
tree. Did you hear about Ann's dream when she
was (in real life not dream) crippled with a slipped disk and in agony, & the
doctor kept ineffectually injecting her with anaesthetics. In the dream a woman
said: "I have a wonderful recipe for you downstairs, come and try it!" She crawled
out of bed, fell downstairs, & somehow in her fall slipped the disk back. Now
she's as right as rain. Alastair's
address is: Bell Rock House St Andrews
Fife. He's writing a novel there.
Tomas is learning to read much faster
than any of you: good Old Lob! The cats resent the puppies & constantly sneak in
to wet the sofa. Emilia & Jaime & family and Marnie are coming this week end.
Hope to God the weather mends.
Postscript by Beryl Pritchard (Hodge, Graves)
Please get 2 photos (passport x4cm large) and send them to Enid for your Yug visa. Better get some extra copies
as you never know. Love, Mother.
BG: An Aviaco plane from Barcelona-Palma crashed
Friday night at Puigpunent. Only two passengers aboard.
Postscript by Beryl Pritchard (Hodge, Graves)
STOP PRESS. Have changed our plans due to a letter from Jenny who begs us to spend
Christmas with her in Rome. So get the
photos but bring them with you. We can get Yug visas in Rome. Will get
you a ticket from London to Rome leaving on the 20th1957-12-20. Is that right? And a couchette. Or is it the 19th1957-12-19? Can't you arrange the driving test when you
get back? Just let me know as soon as possible if you want to leave the 19th1957-12-19 or 20th1957-12-20. Hope
you like this idea as much as we do. Love, Mother.