To church study club meeting in Veronica Willey's room.
Bridge in afternoon, against Miss Nora Bascombe and Mrs Lily Caer-Clarke; we won.
Concert, very good in parts; new song 'Some Day Soon.
((The song was composed in camp, and started:
'When the carrier plane comes to carry us Home
Some.. day.. soon..'))
Carol & Viv's "1945 Optimists"(Garton, Luke, Gilchrist, Curtis, D.G. Wilson, Brenchley, Colledge, Scanten((sp?)), Goldie & Peggy Hunter, Dorothy Morley, J. Cheape, E. Grant, O. Campbell ((maybe A O S Campbell?)), Marie Morrison, N.
Cloudy, hot, humid.
Odd jobs. Making tins watertight with pitch.
Have noticed M very offhand lately when I’ve been to see Steve, one would think I’d done something wrong.
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Carol & Viv's "1945 Optimists" ((see 28th for details))
Cloudy, fine, hot.
Odd jobs.
Churchill in Election speech indicates that war out here would not take long to finish.
German lesson.
Fed up. (I visit other people, why don’t they visit me?) Out of everything.
?G
Worked am.
Swiming with Peggy in afternoon. Not feeling well.
Took minutes for Gladys at meeting in evening.
Sat with Irma, Pat Lederhofer (18) and Peggy, and learned of the latest St Stephens romance. ((Alas, not given here... perhaps this was Billie Gill's pregnancy?))
Carol & Viv's "1945 Optimists" ((see 28th for details))
Operation - Black. (ulcer)
U.S. $100 note worth Y12,000
Corpus Christi.
Wendy Barton's 17th birthday.
Walked with Gladys in evening. Then bridge, Mr. & Mrs Tribble beat Peggy and I – 42!
Last day of newspapers for Camp
Wt. 134 lbs.
Fine, hot, humid.
Rims on wheels.
Lard to C.
German lesson.
Writing hymns.
[?] all off.[?]
Workers’ oil & sugar.
W. Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) captured by British. ((W. Joyce was captured on the 28th May. The news had reached Jones quickly.))
((Following text not dated:))
Girl in street with all flesh torn from legs. Wild dogs blamed.
Cucumbers in roof garden green and white not so bad after all. Four pumpkins survive but long time ripening. Long beans not bad. Peanuts livening up.
Early June all quiet for a week.
Here we are in June. I am behind with my entries and must mention facts briefly. During April the Japanese cut us down to one water day in five. That was very trying, especially for washing as the weather had already become hot and sticky. Crowds of people used to take their clothes down to the pool in the Married Quarters garden and wash them there.
Glorious First ((I had always tried to celebrate the Glorious 1st of June, remembering history lessons)) - but the only new thing I had to wear was a nice bright hair ribbon which was once a belt of June Cheape's ex-pyjamas!
Outside roll call in a.m. We had our first experience of (mass) bowing - had to giggle because no one seemed to be bowing at the same angle.
a.m. outdoor roll-call (internees stand to attention, bow, stand at ease). Told to go easy with rice ((sp?)) until ???((unclear)) returns from town with new ration quota.
I wasn't able to finish my notes last Wednesday as I developed a terrific fever and had to lie down then in the early hours of the morning bowels just opened wide and in the morning I made an attempt to the lavatory but only got half way and Davie Bone managed to revive me and bring me back to bed. I suffered a lot from looseness, red hot urine, fever and terrific shattering headache and finally was forced into Tweed Bay Hospital on Monday night 29th May.
Hot.
Hosp. lav. cistern.
Rep. rice tin for Steve.
Dug pot. patch for G.
Black-market stuff arrived by lorry.
Ahmed Khan in trouble re chit to Pile & MacCutcheon re cigarettes. (("Pile" could refer to C S Pile or R M Pile.))
No news.
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Mr. F. W. Grinter hurt when air raid tunnel fell in.
We (Redwoods) had spring-cleaning today.
Japs made Tony Sandberg work up the hill all day. (('Up the hill' means at Jap HQ in camp.))
To St Joseph's social, went quite well, big crowd.
Did hospital library for Dorothy Holloway who is still in hospital.