11th February 1943

Thursday

Cloudy but fine, with many intervals of sun and blue sky.  From the papers I see there were more attacks yesterday, doing a lot of damage in the southern counties.  Some bombs were dropped right up to the edge of London.

Lovely evening.  Winter seems to have gone, although the trees are bare and black.  Snowdrops and crocuses on the Castle Ramparts.  Light at half past 6, and as I cycled through Wignall Street I could see a tractor at work in one of the settlement fields, well after 6 o’clock.

The land looks very well.  A lot of hedging has been done since Christmas.