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Letter from Ian Jenner to Flora Jenner, 25 August 1975. (S1480)

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Actual Text:	25th of August 1975 Dear all Thank you for the card from Barra and the letter from Oban, it’s a pity though that you didn’t have a better place to stay and that the weather wasn’t too kind still I hope you all enjoyed your little break. I must admit that there were times when I thought that you wouldn’t make it to Barra especially with that tummy trouble you all had. I suppose now that you have safely survived this trip you will want to tackle the upper reaches of the Amazon next. Life goes on here as usual although one of my men met with an accident last night, we were servicing a VC10 when he came off, head first, of a servicing platform 20 feet up, he was very lucky getting away with a broken wrist and facial cuts – he will be sent home next week. In about half an hour the annual Dhoni Race starts, this race is with teams of RAF lads in the local boats called Dhonis. About 10 boats race around the lagoon and there will be many crashes and even, if we are very lucky, a sinking. The boats are very difficult to handle and one of the rules of the race is that nobody was allowed to practice – it’s all a big laugh really and is part of the ‘keep the lads busy’ campaign especially over August bank holiday. As the weather is fine and the sea blue we are, over bank holiday, expecting lots of coaches full of daytrippers, after all we have better beaches than Southend. Have just come back from watching my shift team in the Dhoni Race come last, they had taken out with them in the boat several red smoke flares. These flares emit volumes of thick, vivid red smoke can be seen 5 miles away. They shot to the front at first and set off the flares shrouding all the other boats in the red cloud – there were lots of collisions – the race judges would have disqualified the team if they had not come in last anyway, still everyone had a good laugh. Well it’s time to post this letter and have lunch, I think I might do little birdwatching this afternoon. My love to you all daddy
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