the news that Zepp. bombs had killed 14 men in this camp. However today things are brighter & the weather is lovely, the air full of skylarks & [?] with other singing birds. We are on an upland almost within sight of the sea near Dover whose beach lights we see at night - We are in fields of long green grass, a few a few copses about & the hedges white with hawthorn - Another very unpleasant incident with [Twigg?] yesterday in which we were all concerned & a [very?] bad night so far as sleep was concerned give my letter a doleful turn I know but things are not so bad as they sound