Walter (your #7830),
...The leave was all too short. Before January 1942 was more than a week old, I was off to my new training school, called "Operational Training Unit", otherwise known as 54 OTU, at RAF Station Church Fenton, in Yorkshire...
...Yorkshire is a bleak, cold County in winter. Church Fenton didn't depart from the normal. Snow lay around for the rest of the month, and well into February...
I got to 57 OTU on 1st July 1942 Three lovely, warm summer months in Hawarden (Flintshire), having overwintered in Alabama and come home in March.
You timed it wrong, mate !
Danny.