Saturday
Managed to get in really early, after a quiet night. Press conference was in the Holly Trees
drawing room at 9.30. It was not at all satisfactory, and after an
hour of this [the newspaper reporters] were taken off to see the land-in-possession, except Nash and
Draycott who both refused to go – they said what they wanted was a reply to the
allegations made in specific cases in this District, and did not want a
conducted tour of Committee land.
Chairman came in later in the morning, and was very bitter
against Wentworth Day. Called him “a
damned imposter, a low journalist, and an agitator”.
Out of office at 1.30, got my rations, and went up town
for a few things. Went into St. Peter’s
Churchyard, and looked at the iron work on the door, which I have not seen for
years. Still in good order, though needs
cleaning. Walked along the little path
to the back of the Parish Room, and thought of the times when I climbed up and
down those steps with the water jug 25 years ago, and the day when Mother came
to hurry home with me during an air raid.
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