I am late reposting this. I have been struggling to reblog from my iphone. I have to do it manually on my laptop. Is anyone else having an issue with reblogging?
Thank you, Nolcha, for sharing part 11 of my book.
Jake Tanner
Letter from Private Jake Tanner to his fiancée, Kate Henderson 3 November 1917
Dear Kate
This is just a quick note to let you know my battalion is billeted in a small town in France. I am sharing a barn with the men from my platoon. Joe, Mike, Beau, and Will are still with me, and that’s a comfort.
I am glad we are living in a barn and not tents, as it has rained nearly continuously since our arrival two weeks ago. The barns leak, but the earth floors are high enough not to flood.
The mud here is different from the mud back home. It is a yellow clay which builds up thickly on our boots and must be scraped off. I never thought I’d be spending 30 minutes a day trying to get mud off my boots and uniform.
A lot of the army supplies are still in England or stateside, so rations are a bit of a sore topic. The food is dull and repetitive, with stew and corned beef hash being staples. None of us has much money ,and we pawned just about every trinket we brought with us at the different stores in exchange for tobacco and chocolate. Some of the men resorted to smoking tea, dried clover leaves, and anything else they can get their hands on. Don’t worry, I have not done this. I’ve never been that keen on smoking, as you know.
We have started training even though a lot of our equipment hasn’t yet arrived. I hope the food situation will improve soon, as it is hard to be energetic when you are hungry.
Continue reading here: https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/the-soldier-and-the-radium-girl-part-1-the-bloom-of-youth-chapter-1-enlist-in-haste-repent-at-leisure-cont-11-by-roberta-eaton-cheadle-2/
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Reblogging doesn’t work well now. Clicking a Reblog button just opens up a new post without incorporating the first part of the post to be reblogged with a link to continue reading. If I want to reblog a post now, I just start a new post, write an intro to the post I’m reblogging and add a link to it manually.
I have seen posts on other blogs that appear to have been reblogged in what used to be the usual way, but it no longer works on mine.
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I have Robbie its as Audrey has said above it just opens a new post which you have to manually create and I do as Audrey does an intro and a link as the reblog button for some reason doesn’t do what it did before xx
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