This blog posts extracts from E J Rudsdale's diaries of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War.
Each extract was posted exactly 70 years after it was first written, marking the 70th anniversary of the Second World War between 2009-2015.
11th August 1941
Wet all night. Clark told me tonight that foxes had been seen at Bourne Mill and in the cemetery, and that two or three people had lost fowls.
All this wet weather is very bad for the harvest.
4 comments:
Anonymous
said...
'had lost fouls.'
Is this Rudsdale's actual entry or a typing error?
Thanks for the information. I'm delighted that you are publishing these wartime Colchester diaries on your website and they make a fascinating comparison with Rudsdale's journals. I will add a link from the Rudsdale blog so that other readers can compare the two accounts. Good luck and best wishes, Catherine
4 comments:
'had lost fouls.'
Is this Rudsdale's actual entry or a typing error?
I hope he meant 'fowls'!
Mike
Thanks Mike - yes, it's definitely fowls! Oops! A typing error on my part but all now corrected. Glad you spotted it! CP
Hi Catherine
There was another Colchester wartime diarist.
I have created a site that like Rudsdale only goes up to today.
It is ineresting comparing the entrys.
www.ww2incolchester.com
Mark Colyer
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the information. I'm delighted that you are publishing these wartime Colchester diaries on your website and they make a fascinating comparison with Rudsdale's journals. I will add a link from the Rudsdale blog so that other readers can compare the two accounts. Good luck and best wishes, Catherine
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