devotion

The prompt for this weeks' inchie at:

http://inchybyinch.blogspot.com/

is

DEVOTION.

My image is of a woman writing to her soldier husband.

The background is

my mother's ration book from the second world war .

Later I added some brown paper & string-
mum always folds & keeps brown paper from parcels
& rolls the string into balls-
This is inbuilt from her childhood during the war
Waste not Want not
everything was saved & recycled. 

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I was also thinking of my mother in the early fifties, 

young and with her first baby,

waiting to fly to Malta

to join my father who was posted there.

Dad was a Royal Marine.

Though we were often joined him overseas,

there were times when we didn't.

He was away for a whole year

when my three brothers were little

& mum wrote lots of letters.

Being a teacher,

she wrote out the whole alphabet

so that my dad could practise handwriting

so he could write to my brothers

with lettering they could read.