Archive for the category 'Diary'

Tue. 11 May 43. 9.20 pm.
# ALLIES ROUT ENEMY IN TUNIS AND BIZERTE
# FEARS FOR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN FORCES
# EMMIE’S EASTER VISIT RECOUNTED
# CAR PROBLEMS FIXED – WITH DIFFICULTY
# TWO NEW BABIES

Last Thursday and Friday 6th and 7th May saw the...
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Sun. May. 9. 43 6.20. pm.
# DIARY RESUMES AFTER FIVE WEEKS
# APRIL FLOODS DRAMATICALLY DESCRIBED
# FAMILY GUESTS STAY FOR SEVERAL NIGHTS

It is more than a month since I wrote in my...
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Thurs April 1. 9.00 pm [1943]
# WILD WEATHER ENDS MONTH
# RAF IS TWENTY FIVE
# MODERN MATERIALS DEBATED
# WILL MAINTAINS GARDENS FOR HOUSEOWNERS
# WIRELESS PERSONALITES AT SKEGNESS EVENTS

Tho’ March did not come in like a lion it...
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Sat. Mar. 27. 8.15. p.m [1943]
# NEWS OF SOLDIERS – FRANK AND JOCK – AND WIVES
# VISITORS INTERRUPT SPRING CLEANING
# VILLAGE SHOCKED BY FATAL ACCIDENT

A week since I last wrote in my diary. No letter...
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Mar. 20. Sat. 9pm. [1943]
# BACON AND HAMS HUNG
# CHINE COOKED

Father hung bacon today, it all looks very nice....
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