Winter Land - Girl
As October comes, many of the newer land-girls look forward to winter with misgiving. Many of them came into the country in summer, to find the days of hay-time and harvest long but pleasant, The isolation of winter is their great dread. In many villages they see no evidence of communal life except the public-house. They want friends, and friends in the country are -hard to make. To be isolated, friendless and cut off from sympathetic activities, in the heart of winter, can be a painful thing. Yet in many villages there are not enough land-girls to form their own clubs, and one wonders if there is any solution to their problems except the simple solution of neigh- bourliness. In addition to these problems of environment and isola- t: on,.it seems to me that the land-girl has genuine grievances. Arriving late at night at a railway-station, for example, tired out and hungry, she finds that the ordinary Services' buffet cannot serve her. Hers is not recognised, apparently, as an auxiliary service, and so she is denied these simple Service privileges. If this is true, and I am assured by a very intelligent land-girl that it is, then it is a wrong that very quickly needs righting.
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