Tuesday
Dull but warm. I am beginning to like this place. I get up at 7.30, cut bread and marmalade,
boil water to shave. I eat breakfast
before electric fire listening to radio. Give the cat some milk. Then wash and shave, put on kettle for
tea. Drink 3 cups, leave about 8.30, and
away down the hill as fast as I can go.
The milk is excellent, and I get it fresh from the cow.
Autumn is falling, the roads
covered with leaves and horsechestnuts, gleaming balls of mahogany.
This morning had to go out to
Birch Aerodrome again. The Chairman and Gardiner Church there. The old Chairman very annoyed and made
tactless remarks. When we came out, saw
a herd of bullocks being chased across the aerodrome.
George Faulds sale at Birch Holt,
dead stock laid out in meadow. Mostly
rubbish, 2 old tractors etc. Women's Land Army girls arranging stuff.
Got lift to Rectory Cross road,
ate blackberries then picked up v. old Daimler lorry. Could only get into top gear going downhill. Back to Colchester
by 1pm. Hostel supervisor phoned to warn
girls that food was poisoned. Great
excitement phoning Halsall, where girls were working.
Home to tea, then back to Holly Trees and
talking to Poulter till 6.30. To Higham by
7.15. Very dark and cloudy. Quiet evening, supper, radio, reading. Did no work.
Must get busy, but lack a desk and bookshelves.
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