manners to tell us you had left the area right at the end of the show before we could even get there.) You see? If things carry on like this, we will never meet and then how would you feel?
I have put my address on the top of this letter so that you can write back to me and we can arrange to meet up away from all those endless looking eyes and listening ears. I can personally guarantee that you will find peace here in my house. I will make sure my parents are both out – they do sometimes go to archery together, so that would be a good time to come, on Thursday evenings. (Except at half-term when my brother comes home from boarding school and we are going on our boat on the Trent canal. Again. YAWN. I would much rather see you.) However we arrange it, I can assure you of peace and quiet and my 100% full attention, with snack refreshments and whatever drink you choose. Obviously I will have to buy those ahead of time so you will need to send me a list of your favourites, with most favourite as No. 1 and so on. (Bear in mind that we cannot always get American drinks here, e.g. soda pops or Popsicles or ice-cream sundaes etc., but we can get English drinks like Coke, Vimto or Kia-Ora squash. Plus my parents have got some sherry and a bottle of Asti Spumante if you so need or want.) When it comes to your transport here, I expect you will arrange that and I can get directions for you from the big roundabout near school or I can even call a taxi to pick you up from the station if necessary. But David, all that nickety-pickety arrangements stuff is for later, let’s not ruin it now with all that.
There is something else I just want to mention now because I’ve been thinking about it. Other than the mega luv we will have for each other which I take for granted already, we will have to learn about each other’s cultures and this might take some time, so we must be patient and tolerable about it. As of this moment, there is so much I don’t know about your fair land, the United States of America, but believe me, I am an oh-so-hungry learner and am oh-so-keen to digest it all! Before long, I will be jivin’ on the Sunset Strip, eating crabfish on the byoo and getting down all over the place! And perhaps, in time, you will come to love our crazy fish ’n’ chips in newspaper and our coins with the head of the Queen on one side as a mark of respect. What a fascinating time we have ahead as a future. So, unlike most other couples who simply come from the same place and already know all this stuff, we will have so much more exciting exploration to do. I can’t wait!
So, anyway, this is enough for you to take in all in one go so I will wait for your reply before I arrange anything. Please can you make sure it’s you who writes or calls me rather than a servant/secretary? That would be better. Until we finally meet and instantly know how in luv we are and always will be forever and a day to the moon and back, I leave you with one last thought to abide. ‘Could it be forever?’ Oh yes, my love, it could, is my answer. My heart in yours, have courage,
Lotsaluv ,
Moo French age 14
(This is a family nickname which comes from when we lived in Cyprus and has nothing to do with me looking like a cow! – as you will see from enclosed photo, which you are free to keep. I have another copy.)
Dear Dad,
I LOVED LINCOLN , I thought it was the poshest city we had ever lived near. There was something grand about it. There’s that big ancient bow arch you can walk under, and an elegant river that runs right through the middle, reminding you what an important place you’re in. Plus of course a cathedral you can’t miss. I haven’t visited Lincoln since we left when I was 14 years old so maybe it isn’t as impressive as my memory insists, but I clearly remember shopping there and being in awe.
RAF Faldingworth was also impressive to me, but in a different way. The quarters and the NAAFI were quite compact and cheery but the actual
I have put my address on the top of this letter so that you can write back to me and we can arrange to meet up away from all those endless looking eyes and listening ears. I can personally guarantee that you will find peace here in my house. I will make sure my parents are both out – they do sometimes go to archery together, so that would be a good time to come, on Thursday evenings. (Except at half-term when my brother comes home from boarding school and we are going on our boat on the Trent canal. Again. YAWN. I would much rather see you.) However we arrange it, I can assure you of peace and quiet and my 100% full attention, with snack refreshments and whatever drink you choose. Obviously I will have to buy those ahead of time so you will need to send me a list of your favourites, with most favourite as No. 1 and so on. (Bear in mind that we cannot always get American drinks here, e.g. soda pops or Popsicles or ice-cream sundaes etc., but we can get English drinks like Coke, Vimto or Kia-Ora squash. Plus my parents have got some sherry and a bottle of Asti Spumante if you so need or want.) When it comes to your transport here, I expect you will arrange that and I can get directions for you from the big roundabout near school or I can even call a taxi to pick you up from the station if necessary. But David, all that nickety-pickety arrangements stuff is for later, let’s not ruin it now with all that.
There is something else I just want to mention now because I’ve been thinking about it. Other than the mega luv we will have for each other which I take for granted already, we will have to learn about each other’s cultures and this might take some time, so we must be patient and tolerable about it. As of this moment, there is so much I don’t know about your fair land, the United States of America, but believe me, I am an oh-so-hungry learner and am oh-so-keen to digest it all! Before long, I will be jivin’ on the Sunset Strip, eating crabfish on the byoo and getting down all over the place! And perhaps, in time, you will come to love our crazy fish ’n’ chips in newspaper and our coins with the head of the Queen on one side as a mark of respect. What a fascinating time we have ahead as a future. So, unlike most other couples who simply come from the same place and already know all this stuff, we will have so much more exciting exploration to do. I can’t wait!
So, anyway, this is enough for you to take in all in one go so I will wait for your reply before I arrange anything. Please can you make sure it’s you who writes or calls me rather than a servant/secretary? That would be better. Until we finally meet and instantly know how in luv we are and always will be forever and a day to the moon and back, I leave you with one last thought to abide. ‘Could it be forever?’ Oh yes, my love, it could, is my answer. My heart in yours, have courage,
Lotsaluv ,
Moo French age 14
(This is a family nickname which comes from when we lived in Cyprus and has nothing to do with me looking like a cow! – as you will see from enclosed photo, which you are free to keep. I have another copy.)
Dear Dad,
I LOVED LINCOLN , I thought it was the poshest city we had ever lived near. There was something grand about it. There’s that big ancient bow arch you can walk under, and an elegant river that runs right through the middle, reminding you what an important place you’re in. Plus of course a cathedral you can’t miss. I haven’t visited Lincoln since we left when I was 14 years old so maybe it isn’t as impressive as my memory insists, but I clearly remember shopping there and being in awe.
RAF Faldingworth was also impressive to me, but in a different way. The quarters and the NAAFI were quite compact and cheery but the actual
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