The start of the year has been a strange. The Soviets have pushed at the Finns again, and again been defeated, loosing multiple divisions. On the 28th, numbers of Soviet troops were forced to surrender around Lake Ladoga. A German plane containing plans for the invasion of the low countries crashed in Belgium, which has roused those smaller, vulnerable nations, to our benefit I suspect. There have been ships lost, but U-boats sunk in return. The war has stalled.
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By far the worst has been the weather. On the 17th of January the temperature fell and the Thames has actually frozen - for the first time since 1888, according to the paper. Lucky we have a full coal bunker, through we've been sparring with it, only heating the living room. A tree has come down in the garden, which I will split up and season, so at least we should be alright next year.
Then there is the vexed subject of teeth. I went to the dentist just before Christmas with a wobbly tooth, and have ended up with two extractions, and some more painful procedures all of which have left me weak, more than a little dizzy, and almost disinterested in the news. We took advantage of a chance to get up to the beach hut, but it was so cold we could only manage a couple of hours. There is barbed wire along parts of the beech now at Hunstanton, which wasn't there before, though I find it hard to image why the Germans would attack 'Time and Tide'.
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