Monday
Very sharp frost last night, but
not too cold this morning. Paid my
account at the “Sun” - £2-12-6. for the week, not unreasonable. To Colchester by 9.15. Busy morning getting ready for the Committee
meeting. Got a letter from the Conway
Hotel to say they have a room. Worked it
out, and found I should have to spend about £6 a week to be comfortable there -
£24 a month. Well worth it. Long to go.
The question – when?
Committee until 6.15. The Chairman very indignant about young
M.’s “black market” case. He is
convinced that young M. is an out-and-out rogue, and had been discussing
the whole matter at great length with Stewart Richardson, the chairman of the
Witham Bench, who tried the case. It all
seemed very irregular to me. I thought that once a case was tried it was
finished, and I should not have expected a Chairman of a Bench to go out of his
way to injure still further a man who had been found guilty.
Back to Colchester 6.30. In Crouch St saw a black woman in the American air-force uniform, walking along with a black
soldier. Had egg on toast and a cup of
coffee at the Milk Bar in John Street, and then cycled to Stratford. The Talbooth seems comfortable and clean, but
terribly old-world, everything fake of course.
Several Americans staying there with young girls.
Went to bed early in a curious
little room with a miniature four-poster bed.
Bright moonlight night, and many planes flying in formation, went out at
about 8 o’clock.
Feel terribly out of place
here. Wish I could go to Wales tomorrow.
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