“This is quite true” Geoffrey Palmer reads Evelyn Waugh letter to his wife (31st May 1942)

I was so happy to receive a letter from you, I thought you had been swallowed up in the sea. I wrote to him, Keir Harper, no response. Miss Cowles is leaving tonight, everyone except me will be sorry. She is a cheerful, unprincipled young woman. She wants to be made Colonel-in-Chief of the Commando, so I suggested Princess Margaret Rose. I'm not going to say that I'm not going to eat the food, but I'm going to eat the food, and Bob is eating out of my hand right now. The first thing I did was to ask Lord Glasgow to be charmers with me, so they offered to blow up an old tree stump for him. I was very grateful and he said, don't ruin the plantation of young trees near it, because that's the apple. And they said, no, of course not. We can blow down a tree so that it falls on a tree. And Lord Glasgow said, "God, you're smart". And he invited them all to lunch and he said, "Well, I'm not going to eat lunch". So, Colonel Durnford Slater, DSO, said to his subaltern, "Have you got a gun?" I'm going to put enough explosive in the tree? Yes, sir. 75 pounds. Is there enough? Yes, sir. I worked it. And when Colonel D Slater, DSO, was asked to write a letter to the president of the United States, he said, "I'm going to write a letter to the president of the United States". The first time I saw the port, he sent for the subaltern and said, subaltern, better put a little more. I don't want to disappoint Lord Glasgow. Very good, sir. Then they all went. The explosion was reported by the local police, who were on their way to see the explosion and Colonel DS, DSO, said, "You will see that tree fall flat at just one minute". And Lord Glasgow said, "God, you're smart". The fire was started by a man who was standing on a tree, and the fire was started by a man who was standing on a tree, and the fire was started by a man who was standing on a tree. The plane, which was flying at a speed of about 50 km/h, fell silently sideways, rose 50 feet into the air, taking with it half an acre of soil. The sub-officer said, "Sir, I made a mistake". The first thing I noticed was that the weight of the car was about 7 pounds and a half, not 75. The next day, the two of them were walking back to their castle, and when they came to the turn of the driveway in sight of his castle, they saw a man standing in the middle of the road, a man who was walking in the middle of the road, and a man who was walking in the middle of the road. The only thing they should find is that every glass pane in the building was broken. So Lord Glasgow gave a little cry and ran to hide his emotions in the toilet. The explosion caused the entire ceiling to fall on his head when he pulled the plug. This is quite true.