Written when Winifred Pluckrose was working in the Women's Timber Corps near Bodmin in Cornwall, October 1944; recovering from an illness at St Thomas' Hospital in Godalming, Surrey, October 1944, at Bramley Manor Convalescent Home near Guildford, Surrey, November 1944, and at home in Kennington, London, November-December 1944; and working in the Women's Timber Corps near Taunton in Somerset, December 1944.