I wonder where we will be this time next year - I hope everything will be back to normal and we are living peacefully once again but there is little hope for that for some time to come, I think. I biked to town yesterday to get the mail as we had had no word from Roy and Jim had not written for a while and I also received notice to be interviewed next Friday for National Services - but I need only to say I am milking and they would not take me - one never knows though. [Jean is referring to her brothers Roy and Jim McGregor]