Meat stew, delicious.Took egg white to Peggy which she will cook for Mr Nicholas. ((This was part of a scheme of Father Meyer's whereby he would get egg white to be cooked by some of his congregation for elderly invalids mainly.))
Visited in hospital Pat C, so glad for him and Sheila; then to Ivy Wright-Brown, Mrs Hamilton, Mr Nicholson.
As we have not been allowed newspapers since the end of May, any news trickling into the camp is very scarce and most unreliable but sifting it out and using our grey matter thing must be moving rapidly and our release should not be long delayed.
Conditions in the camp are very poor, the food supply being well just water, rice, water melon and pumpkin all water, but with beans added it is palatable. There is not any body building material except the meat that we are now getting at the weekends. We have had beef for the last 3 weekends, but in very small quantities. I have had to buy in the Black Market what I can as after my illness I was very weak and still suffer from fever and so I've sold things to get the necessary Yen. The water supplies now better being on every day for part of the day. Weather Typhoony.
Wittenbach / Alton
(Meat )
Overcast, showery. Cool, S wind.
Chopped wood V & G.
With Steve aft. real flour cake.
Ring for Ying.
No flag up. No rescription [?] in East.
Black-market stuff: Lard 875Y. Sugar 300Y. Sardines 400Y.
Weather improved pm.
Lorry with veg. 10pm. ∴