Diary pages from this date

Good Friday. To service am.  Eyes pretty stuck up.

Went to see Doreen and gave her an impromptu shorthand lesson.

Rumours:  we will get wong tong; and Japs expect hostilities within 4 hours.

To play at 3.15pm, 'Behold Thy Mother'.

Valerie Clark has chicken pox and is in hospital.

Mrs Ashton-Hill has just heard that her husband died in Japan last September.

We had a hot cross bun from hospital.

To Rosary at Grants, then walked round with Marie and Gladys.

Mum and I had remains of Carlton pudding in a fritter. (('Carlton pudding' was the name on one of the tins in the Red Cross parcels but I can't remember its contents!))

Bright & warm.

Fixed sun-blind for G & V.

2 boxes matches Y7.60.

Cleared out ex.lav. after the door had been taken for firewood.

Lorry with Canteen gear.

All news good. Argentine declared war on G & J. More troops landed in Luchu Is. Japs contradict Peace feelers. No E. war news.

Plane around 9pm – 10pm S & E.

Wood & blasting.