1963: It still rains a lot and I go swimming a lot.

16 Mar Saturday	Christopher had his first swimming lesson at the Cavendish school today and did very well.  But when he came out he was frezzing!  Mum send for the gas man today because the boiler was sounding a bit funny when it came on.  When the gas man had cleaned it he said that it was not dirty.  We had a nice dinner with a very tasty chicken.
17 Mar Sunday	C.M. and I cleaned the bike and we got 3d for it.  I made a very good bow.  It can shoot over the telephone wires.  I made one for Christopher and played Robin Hood.  But the fun all stopped when it began to pour.  We had a little hail as well.  We had cold chicken sandwiches for tea.
18 Mar Monday	In my Look and Learn I got a map of the world and it tells the longest rivers and lots of other things that you need to know about the world.  Dad came to meet us at the baths after work.  Mum can nearly dive but she still dos belly flops.
19 Mar Tuesday	When I came home from school I found out that Christopher had got into a mess with mum’s lipstick.  Mum and dad went to school to see my books and to see how I was getting on.  They took my report as well so that they could discuss it with Mrs. Lardi.  We went next door and John lent us two books.
20 Mar Wednesday	Mum went to London to look at the shops there she went down Oxford Street and came back worn out.  Christopher had to go to Mrs Summers house to wait for her to come back.  At my swimming lesson I dived three times off the top board; the first time I was a bit frightened and when I hit the water my head felt like a hammer had hit it, but the second time it was much better and the third time it was even worse than the first.
21 Mar Thursday	Mum has been in a temper all day and when I came home she made me do my homework straight away.  Yesterday I received a letter from Nanna, it had got two shillings in it.  For Christopher and I to share, we each had a shilling.  At lunch time I saw Dad on his bike going back to work, he gave me some sweets.
22 Mar Friday	To-day I took three shillings to school to get some tickets for the play on the second and third of April but when I got there all the tickets for the second of April had been sold so I had to get some of the third of April.
23 Mar Saturday	Christopher went swimming today again.  We went out for tea at Uncle Ken’s and we came home in his car because he wanted to take some wood to a friend and he could not get it in his car so he lent ours.  We also went to Aunty Audrey’s.
24 Mar Sunday	At 8 o’clock in the morning Dad said we were going to Shirebrook so off we went we still had Uncle Ken’s car so we went in that.  First we saw Aunty Dot then we saw Nanna Burton and Uncle Mick and we got at nanna’s we found that we had got there before Aunty Audrey.  It was a lovely day, but when we were coming back some rubber came off the back wheel.
25 Mar Monday	On the front of this week’s Look and Learn there was a picture of a pillory so I made one.  First you have some cardboard, a roll of sellotape and some sicoress and some wire to make it.  Then you got some of the cardboard and rolled it into a sort of column then you cut it in half and put some card at the top with a hinge of wire.
26 Mar Tuesday	To-day in history we learnt about bad King John and Robin Hood.  So I took home my history book to finish off what I had done, for home work.  I saw Dad two times at play time and he gave me some sweets.  I mad another pillory, it was the same as the one I made yesterday but smaller.
27 Mar Wednesday	To-day I went to the Dacorum college to see an exhibition on Hderabad.  The thing I liked the most was an elephant which was made all for paper 15 children helped to make it.  I went swimming again I went off the top stage three times.
28 Mar Thursday	At school we were practising our play and I missed another lesson (which was recorders) because of that reason.  Mum dug the garden.  Christopher took sixpence to school for this bus fare because he is going to the exhibition also, it is the same one that I went to.
29 Mar Friday	To-day I had a day off from school.  The weather was not very nice because it rained nearly all the morning and snowed.  We went to Boniface’s for coffee.  After dinner we went round to the Totman’s house for a chat.  I went up with John in the loft and he gave me a stone-thrower.  Christopher went to the exhibition despite the weather.
30 Mar Saturday	I went swimming with Christopher and he was very surprised when I got changed to swim.  Dad did some coving in Mr Jone’s house, in a bedroom.  Christopher cleaned a chrome strip off metal of the Bedford.
31 Mar Sunday	To-day when I was out playing Dad sawed some branches of the trees at the back of our garden.  We all put the clocks forward an hour.  Dada sawed the branches off the trees because Mum said they were stopping the sun coming through.  Uncle Gus and Aunty Dot came to get another baby.  This time it is a girl.
01 Apr Monday	(April Fools).  To-day when I came done to breakfast I said to Dad “there is a fly on your head.  April fools”,  To-day at school we did our dress rehushel and I think that our play is the best.
02 Apr Tuesday	We did the play again and this time we had make-up on our face’s to make us look more like dolls.  I am a soldier.  Daddy taped a programm called “The Indian Wars” because I missed it.  I missed it becaue of the play.
03 Apr Wednesday	We did the play again and when I was acting I saw the major in the front seat with Mr Crawford.  Mum was there also but I did not see her.  I went swimming and had to get out very quickly for the play.
04 Apr Thursday	To-day at dinner time Dad’s trye went down because the valve came out, and Mum had to go an buy a new one.  We did the play again, this time it was in the afternoon.  I bought my costume home.  I had so much grease paint on that I went in the bath when I got home.  I went to bed tired but in a mad temper.
05 Apr Friday	We broke up for the Easter holiday at 2.45 (quarter to three).  I brought home our baskets which we made for Easter.  We went to a rummage sale and bought Moby Dick which cost 3d, a dictionary for 3d and a book called Fun with paper for 1d.
06 Apr Saturday	To-day in the morning when Christopher was getting dressed a letter came for him, it was two bags and a toothbrush.  He got these because he went in for a painting compertishion.  We played war down the fields.
07 Apr Sunday	To-day Dad put a new tyre on to his bike.  Christopher and I helped him.  Also Dad moved the caravan.  Aunty Ethel came for an hour but I only saw her when she was leaving because I was playing down the fields again.
08 Apr Monday	To-day we went to the shops and when we came back on the way, we saw lots of people eon roller skates so Christopher decided to go on his.  But I could not find mine so I had to wait for Dad to come home to get them.  Dad showed us our film tour in France.
09 Apr Tuesday	We played outside and I helped Raymond do his bob-a-job which was to sweep up and clean the path in the back garden.  He got a bob of course.  We went to Aunty Audrey’s to take some soap eggs to Aunty Ethels’ for her to take them to Aunty Val’s and Nanna’s.
10 Apr Wednesday	We went down to Hemel Hempstead and Christopher bought two balloons which burst.  In the morning we also sent a cheque for 5 pounds 5 shillings for Peter’s 21st birthday.  In the afternoon we went to the dentist.  When I went to go swimming we found out that the pump had broken down.  And so we had no swimming.
11 Apr Thursday	To-day I decided to hold a conjuring show.  First I got my tricks ready I had 8 of them.  While I was getting my tricks ready, Christopher read aloud to the audience who were Mum and Dad.  It lasted half and hour altogether. It rained nearly all day.  I got a letter from the swimming club.  It asked me to come to a meeting on the 24th of April.
12 Apr Friday	To-day I played with Peter but when we went down the fields to play we found out that they were too damp to play on.  The Warners came to dinner and we had chicken.  We also had cold chicken sandwiches at tea.
13 Apr Saturday	We went down to the baths but the pump was still broken so we decided to go down to Watford baths instead.  I had a nice time.  We went down to the fields again and when I came back my hair had to be washed straight away because it was dirty.
14 Apr Sunday	We went down the fields again and made a camp.  The Warners came to dinner again.  In the afternoon I went down to the fields again and when it began to rain we got in the camp and pretended to be in a boat that was leaking.
15 Apr Monday	This morning Mummy and Daddy moved all the bed round for a change.  Dad rotovated the back garden in which I put my box with something secret in it.  It is Paul Summers birthday and Christopher went to his party and came back with two jets.
16 Apr Tuesday	I went to the shops for Mum.  I bought home 6d worth of sweets, a comic for Christopher it was the TV COMIC.  For Mum I bought some kidnes and stewing meat and one packet of Cooken.  Mum and Dad moved all the beds back.
17 Apr Wednesday	We went down to Hemel Hempstead to have our hair cut.  Christopher bought some caps to twopence but he did not tell Mum that he was buying them.  We went to Aunty Audrey’s and she gave me three books she has just come back from Holland.
18 Apr Thursday	To-day we went to London.  First we went to St Jame’s park.  When I was flying my jet the end broke.  So we went to Trafalgar Square and I found a pigeon and trailed it all over the place.  Then we went to the art gallery.  We came home on a number 719 bus.
19 Apr Friday	Aunty Audrey gave m some more books.  When we were there Christopher went in the woods and I could not find him.  So I just read the books.  We were playing out all day and Mum let us lend her umbrella because it was so hot.
20 Apr Saturday	Cavendish was closed for swimming so Dad decided to go to a junk yard.  When we got there I stepped into a puddle and got muddy.  So we went away but then we got lost and nearly landed in the canal.  We went across a swing bridge.  Then in the evening we went to Peters party.
21 Apr Sunday	To-day in the woods at the back of Mr Storards a tree fell down and brought another tree down with it.  Mr and Mrs Fullerton came and brought their tour in france with them.  I played outside with Richard.  We went to bed at 9 o’clock.
22 Apr Monday	Today my Look and Learn did not come.  Dad says that it will come on Tuesday.  I hope it will.  Dad is beginning to prune the rose bushs. I can see him doing it now.  STOP PRESS.  My Look and Learn came this afternoon and Mummy hid it away.  But she gave it to me for being a good boy.  Dad showed us some films.
23 Apr Tuesday	It is the last day at home we begin school tomorrow.  We played out side this morning and Dad came home for lunch.  We went to the library to change our books.  After that (when we were on our way to Watford baths) Mum bought two rose buss.  We met Dad at the baths.
24 Apr Wednesday	It is the beginning of the Summer term.  We have just heard about the school outing.  It is on the 27th of May and it costs 3/=.  We are going to the Tower of London.  You will hear all about this on the day.  I went to the swimming club meeting with Dad.  I saw three films about swimming.
25 Apr Thursday	It was a nice day, and Dad bought Christopher a new work book because he has finished, well, nearly finished his other one.  Dad did not come home for his lunch.  We had recorders today.
26 Apr Friday	It was a lovely day.  Daddy had his tooth filled at the dentist.  When he came home he rotovated the garden.  I went out after tea to play.  Mum did nothing.  We saw an Adventure program on television.
27 Apr Saturday	We went to the egg man to fetch some chicken manure.  When we got there we decided to buy some eggs.  We got an egg which had a shell that was not formed.  Dad and Christopher and I went and bought 22 roses.  It was a lovely day.  Dad rotovated the garden again.
28 Apr Sunday	In the morning I went to call for Michael but he could not come out.  Dad began to take the van to bits to be mended and also pruned the roses that we bought yesterday.  In the afternoon Mum lit a bonfire but it did not go.  Christopher went to Tim’s party.  He came back at six o’clock.
29 Apr Monday	In the morning Mummy drove the van to be mended and a lift home on Dad’s Lambretta. I took the money for the trip to the Tower of London.  In the morning David Perkins did not come and when he did come in the afternoon he cut his leg.
30 Apr Tuesday	David Perkins did not come today because he must have been sick.  Because yesterday in the morning he was sick again.  Christopher and I had a race, I won it. For homework we had to draw and paint the costume of a man in the middle ages.  Mum thinks mine is very good.
01 May Wednesday	David Perkins came in today.  Mum had something to do with the buses.  Because she took the wrong bus and had to walk about half the way.  It rained half the day and stopped inside because it was too wet.
02 May Thursday	It was very wet and rain came down in the afternoon/  At recorders Mrs Richard (the teacher) told us to take home a sheet of paper with music on it and stick it on a piece of card, we also had to learn a piece of music to play in the hall.  Chris changed his reading book and got a sweet.
03 May Friday	Christopher has joined the school library and Mummy has joined the Hemel Hempstead library.  I saw Dad at dinner time and he gave me some sweets.  Dad got the van back.  It looks as good as new.  But the one thing different about it is that it has got its colours changed.
04 May Saturday	Churchill baths have opened.  We went in the morning but only Mum and I got in.  It was frezzing.  When we came out we heard that the water was 50 degrees F.  We played in the fields and I saw Mum coming home from the shops.
05 May Sunday	We did the back garden by getting a plank and putting a paving stone on it then pulling it around the garden by means of a rope.  We did this last year to the front garden.  We played down the fields again.
06 May Monday	When I came home I played with David Perkins.  When he got on Christopher’s bike it ran away with him because it had no brakes!  Christopher saw a ply called Alice in Wonderland.  When Dad came home he bought Mum some slacks.
07 May Tuesday	Dad did not come home for dinner today because Mum was at a Tupperware party.  Then she went in to Watford and bought me a pair of trousers, I bought home some music to practise to play in the hall again.
08 May Wednesday	This morning we did not play in the hall because Miss Richards could not find the words of the hymn. She thinks that we are going to play on Friday.  Dad took the afternoon off because he wanted to finish the van.  It was a warm day.  The Cavendish swimming baths opened again.
09 May Thursday	Mum went down to Hemel Hempstead.  Dad came home for lunch but I did not see him.  At recorders Miss Richards said that we could not play on Friday (tomorrow that is) in the hall.
10 May Friday	To-day because it was wet we did not have the heats for the school sports Day.  It rain off and on all day and at dinner time it poured down.  I bought a letter home for Mum and Dad.  We went to a jumble sale.  We were in there for one minute.  I bought a book for 1d.  When we got home Dad blew an egg (a chickens egg).
11 May Saturday	Daddy worked on the van until it was time for swimming.  When we got there we found that we were half and hour too early.  I was in there for a whole hour.  When I came out I went to Smiths and saw Mr Crawford.  In the afternoon we went to jumble sale.  I bought a book.
12 May Sunday	In the morning Michael came to call for me.  We went down to play in the fields.  When we had made a came a boy with an air gun came so we went away. In the afternoon I went to called for Michael again.  We had no trouble with air guns again.  Dad sawed off a branch which was on our garden.  It rained in the morning.
13 May Monday	To-day in the afternoon we were supost to have the heats for the school sports, but as it rained off and on at lunch time we did not have them.  When I came home Mum and Christopher were cleaning the van seats. They were all very dirty. Then after tea we flattened the garden as I said on 5th May.  Mr Totman helped to pull it.
14 May Tuesday	To-day we did not have the heats for the sports again, because one of the classes had gone on their outing.  They were he first to go.  Miss Lardi helped us make a sort of case to carry all the writings and drawings of the Tower of London, which is where we were going for our outing.  STOP PRESS.  We forgot to listen to tonight’s instalment of “The Indian Wars”.
15 May Wednesday	To-day we had the heats for the sports.  I came 3rd in the sack race and 2nd in the wheel barrow race.  David came first in the wheelbarrow.   I will be in the final for the wheelbarrow.  The sack which I had had a hole in it.  Dad came home early to do some flooring in the van.  Michael was not at school to-day because of his tonsils.
16 May Thursday	In the afternoon we did the obsickal race.  I came third because of the skipping.  Sarah and Lynn came to tea because it is my birthday on Saturday and we are going out on Sunday to Norfolk to sail a boat in the Wash.  Major Cooper is now in his flight of 24 orbits. Christopher is sick.
17 May Friday	To-day I played in the hall with a hymn.  David Perkins and Michael Summers came to tea.  David gave me a new homework book (and sixpence).  Mum gave us a gun that fired a dart. All of the darts broke! But Christopher managed not to get his broke.
18 May Saturday	I went shopping for Mum.  When I came back David Perkins was waiting for me to play.  We went down to the fields to play, and had a game of war. In the afternoon we went to a sort of fair at Johns school.  Mum brought about six plants.  When we cam back home Michael was there with a card and some money for my birthday which is on Sunday, (that is tomorrow).
19 May Sunday	My birthday.  We did not go sailing.  When I woke up I started opening all my cards and presents.  I had a pair of flippers, two balls, one pound in money, a box of sweets and two books and lots of cards.  In the afternoon we went to Aunty Audrey’s for tea.  She gave us some comics and books.  Tim gave me a bike for £2 10/=.  I am going to pay a apoundand Daddy is going to pay the rest.  This is written with one of my presents.
20 May Monday	To-day at breakfast I heard a knock at the door and when I went to open it the postman gave me some more presents and cards.  I got another £1.  When I came home I opened another parsel and in were some sandals and a bath mat for Mum.
21 May Tuesday	No more letters came, like on Monday.  I saw Daddy at lunch time.  When I came out of school it was raining.  Mum took me to the barbass.  Then we went to the liebray to change our books.  Mum had tw this time.
22 May Wednesday	When I came home I found out that a lielo had come for me which Mummy and Daddy had send for last week.  Daddy had the afternoon off because he wanted to finish the van off.  Mummy came with me to swimming because Daddy had to do something.  Aunty Olive gave me 6 shillings.
23 May Thursday	It was a very cold day and miserable one also.  When I came home I bought a list of things for what I wanted for the visit to the Tower of London next Monday.  Mummy went to a jumble sale and got a book for me called “The Five go to Summgles Top”.  It is very exciting.
24 May Friday	Daddy bought a gas mask case for to keep my stuff in.  What I will take to the Tower of London on Monday.  I went to see a play called “Emily and the Detectives”.  I took my book.  Tim Warner was one of the gang in the play. I was very good.  I went at half past seven and came back at half past Ten.
25 May Saturday	In the morning we went swimming to the Cavindish.  Christopher nearly swam across. We came half an hour late. In the afternoon we went to two jumble sales.  In the first one I got two books and in the second one it was coke a fire.  I got two books really, four books all together.
26 May Sunday	In the morning we went to Churchill because it was for the club.  I went in but did not stay in there too long.  The temperature was 5600F.  It was a hot day.  I made a parachute.  It is very good.  It can get up very high.  I got the parachute from a book I got at the jumble sales.
27 May Monday	School Outing.  To-day I went on my school outing.  We went to the Tower lf London (as I have told you).  It took us an hour and three quarters to get there, first we went to see the crown jewels.  Then we all went in to the keep or white tower to see the armour.  After lunch we saw tower bridge open and close.  We got back at five o’clock.
28 May Tuesday	Mummy bought a pair of bathing trunks for Daddy’s birthday.  We all have to pay for it (but Daddy did not of course).  Mummy nearly finished planting the grass in the back garden.  At painting lesson I had my picture on the wall.  It was all of the things I saw at the Tower on one sheet of paper.  It rained nearly all day.
29 May Wednesday	When I went to swimming Mummy nearly gave me Daddy’s new swimming trunks to take.  At school we had a notice put up about sports day. Parents are allowed to come.  We are getting ready for going on our trip to South Wales.  We are going in our own caravan.  Mummy stayed in again all day.
30 May Thursday	Mrs Lardi took us on a nature walk in the field.  She read a book to us next to a little wood. On the way back we got things for our nature table.  When I came home I had a shower and we were off.  We were looking for a camping site and the road got smaller and smaller and we came face to face with a dead end.  So we went all the way back – and at last we found a camping site.
31 May Friday	We left early in the morning because we wanted to reach the beach.  The scenery was very nice.  We arrived at a camping site called “St Ishmael’s caravan park”.  There is television which you can see and swings.
01 Jun Saturday	In the morning I went down to the beach to see what I could find.  After that we went shopping and I went into the sea on another beach.  Daddy got sunburnt. He is all red.  We all saw an old castle. On the way back I felt tired and nearly dozed off.  When we came back I played on the swings.
02 Jun Sunday	So far it is very hot.  In the morning I went on the beach and built a castle.  Then Daddy took Christopher and I down to the wreck.  It is 30 years old and is made of wood, we thought that it was made of metal.  My bucket ran away and I had the greatest chase in my life.  We went to Ferryside.  I had a cold shower.
03 Jun Monday	I played with Robin for a while in the morning. Then we all went to the wreck again (and mummy came with us but she is not going again).  We saw some men catch fish that were flat.  You had to walk along the river and feel for them.  We went to Ferryside but it was not sunny so we came home.
04 Jun Tuesday	Early in the morning we packed up and set off to another camping site.  There were lots of them but they all were full.  At last we found one called “Saundersfoot caravan park”.  We stayed here in the evening we had a long walk to the beach through a wood.  On the way we listened to the Indian Wars.
05 Jun Wednesday	In the morning Daddy gave us an aeroplane to play with.  Daddy bought a wooden one for himself.  It is the best, and it only cost 7d!  We went along the coast to a place a bit from Eastwater.  There is a little pool there which Christopher and I went in.  We had a small lunch.  When we came home Christopher and I played with the planes again.
06 Jun Thursday	To-day we went in to Tenby and each bought a plane for ourselves.  Daddy bought another one because Christopher lost his last night in the hedge.  I also bought two leather bookmarks for David and Michael.  In the afternoon we went down to a beach at Tenby.  We nearly lost Daddy’s new shoes and newspaper.
07 Jun Friday	It was a hot morning (Mummy had her beceyne on). In the morning we flew our planes again.  Mummy got my plane down from where I lost it last night.  In the afternoon we went swimming again. This time we took the lielo to lie on.  We bought some glue to make sure the wings stayed in.  We played with them for about an hour.  The glue had done the job.
08 Jun Saturday	It was a very hot day.  In the morning we walked down to Saundersfoot.  Mummy bought us all an ice cream, they were very refreshing.  Mummy and Daddy are running out of money.  In the afternoon we went to Tenby beach.  I was in the longest.  We took the wobble ball.  We made a wall of sand.  The sea pushed it down.
09 Jun Sunday	We left the camping site and went back to Ferryside.  Daddy and I went fishing.  I lost a shoe.  We hunted for it but could not find it.  The swift current must have swept it out to sea.  We have decided to sell the caravan to the warden and have a sprite musketeer in its place.  I went with Daddy to fix up the deal.  The warden gave me some orangeade
10 Jun Monday	To-day is Christopher’s birthday.  He had a building set, he had £1 something (I’ll tell you the amount later on), a car, a caravan, a toy one I mean not a real one. We went home to-day.  On the way we stopped at the camping site which we missed in the Forest of Dean.  It is very nice.
11 Jun Tuesday	no entry
12 Jun Wednesday	Christopher went on his trip today.  He went to the Tring museum.  When he came we all went to London airport to meet some friends.  The caravan has not arrived yet.  It was sports day.  I came fourth in the wheel barrow.  The plane was delayed.  When we came back the caravan was here.
13 Jun Thursday	In the morning we went to the Doctors.  We had to wait a long time before we could get in.  When we did get in I read the Doctors I charge to myself.  He gave me some medicen to take three times a day.  One is nice and the other is terrible!
14 Jun Friday	**** We began our exams.  Today we had mental arithmetic and Comprehension. ON Monday we are having more arithmetic and the Comprehension.  Christopher had his birthday party.  It was very noisier than mine.  We had nine people.  I set up a ? again. If the answer was right on went the light.  The light was red.
15 Jun Saturday	In the morning we went to a carpet sale.  I took six balls of string and found a carpet sewing needle.  We did not say for long because we found the pieces we wanted quickly.  When we came home Daddy sprayed the garden with weed killer and we went swimming.  Christopher can nearly ride a two wheeler (we think).
16 Jun Sunday	T|o-day we went to Heacham sailing with Peter and Uncle Wally.  When we arrived the wind was strong and the tide was out. Tim, Christopher and I built a wall to keep the sea out. But the tide came in very fast and it was soon boo booed.  I could not go sailing because the waves were high and rough.
17 Jun Monday	To-day we had some more Arithmetic and also the compositions.  I think mine was a good one.  It was about a giant who is very wicket and had a fight with a man who killed him.  Daddy took Christopher to school on the bike.  Because he stayed home in the morning because he was not very well.
18 Jun Tuesday	To-day Christopher did not go to school all day.  We had some results to-day.  I got 19 out of 20 for nature and 40 out of 50 for Comprehension.  It rained a lot at dinner time and it was very windy in the afternoon.
19 Jun Wednesday	In the morning a policeman came and called at 6 St Michael’s Ave because he told Daddy what was going to happen to the man who was driving over the M.1. grass in the middle, which Daddy saw (on Saturday).  Daddy won £25 from a premium bond.  The letter came this morning about it.
20 Jun Thursday	Daddy mowed the lawn, well its not much of one but its good anuff for us.  Mummy bought some quilting from the market for a sleeping bag for the caravan.
21 Jun Friday	In the afternoon I added up all my marks (for the exams) and came to 260 out of 320.  Miss Lardi thinks that Cherly came first by 296.  Daddy was looking all day for a power saw.  But at night Mr. Darsee came and said he had ordered one to cut down the trees.  I cut my hand in the bushes at school.  We are going to a swimming gala at Watford baths but we did not.
22 Jun Saturday	To-day we did not go swimming because Christopher said he had a tummy-ake.  Daddy, Mr Jones and Mr Darsee are cutting down the trees at the back of the house.  They have been wanting to do it for some time, so, when the new owner moved in he said “that they could cut don the trees down”.  His name is Mr. Logan.  In the afternoon we went to Daddy’s sports while Mummy went to fetch Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert.
23 Jun Sunday	In the morning I went to the bths.  Daddy came with me on the bike and Mummy came later because she was serving the breakfast to Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert.  Daddy and all the other woodwork party cut down som more trees.  One of them flattened Mummy’s dailiers.
24 Jun Monday	To-day when I got to school Mrs. Lardi gave us our positions in the class.  I came 7th.  David Perkins came 19th.  I am on Thursday going to see if I am good anuff to go in the school swimming gala.  I may go in for racing or staly.  It rained all day.  In the – STOP PRESS I want to read a book and my hand is getting acher so I will stop writing.
25 Jun Tuesday	Mummy took the caravan’s covers back to the re-covered because the sun had made the colours fade.  Mummy, Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert went to Aunty Ethels for dinner and she gave Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert each a ticket to go to a show in London.  David Perkins played with me after school in the dell.
26 Jun Wednesday	Christopher had to take his plimsalls to school for sports day because he had forgotten where he put his others at school.  When I went to Cavindish Mt Carter said to Mummy, that, with some more children, I was chosen to represent the club on Saturday at St Albans.
27 Jun Thursday	To-day I went with some more children to see if I was good a nuff for the school gala.  I saw Mummy, Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert there they had come to see how I came on.  I came third in breaststroke, first in backstroke and first in diving.  Daddy went to a parents-teacher meeting, while Aunty Ethel and Aunty Audrey came (and all that lot).
28 Jun Friday	To-day Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert went to see a flower show in Lndon at Alexandra Palace.  It rained very hard.  At dinner time there was some lightening and thunder.  The drains in the top playground were all blocked up!  The windows in the passage all steamed up.
29 Jun Saturday	In the morning Christopher, Mummy, Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert went swimming. I did not go because I was going in the gala this afternoon.  I went with some more children in a bus, while Mummy and all the rest went to pick up Mr Tompkin.  In my race I came third because one of them was disqualified (35 yards breaststoke)
30 Jun Sunday	It rained nearly all the morning.  When I went swimming with the club it rained off and on.  Next week I am swimming again in a place called Ware.  I am in the freestroke race.  Daddy went to another driving Rally, but he will not win this time. Aunty Peggy and Uncle Bert went back home.
01 Jul Monday	In the morning Daddy got up early to do something in the caravan.  Mummy went to bring the new caravan covers, which had been recovered because of fading from sunlight.  She went to Harrow to feach them.  I have just been told that I am swimming again onThursday.
02 Jul Tuesday	Daddy got up early to go to London.  Mummy stayed out nearly all day in the garden.  She is weeding.  For homework last night we had to collect one of each of the flowers in our garden,  I had 22 one’s and also came fourth.  At dinner time I came home to get my recorder for a practise.
03 Jul Wednesday	Last night Mrs Cartete rang up to say that because the Cavindish sports were being held we could not go.  She also said that we are going to swim on Thursday instead. David came to call for me again.
04 Jul Thursday	In the morning I went swimming.  This time it was only a practice.  Mummy came to see me but she came a bit late and I had already been in.  We are getting ready some of the stuff for the open day. I went swimming again at the Cavindish. It has just began to rain very hard.  Most of the day it was fine.
05 Jul Friday	In the morning Iss Lardi made us write our composions out again (she told us to do it because they were so badly done).  I did not do mine because it was about the only one done nicely.  I came home with my swimming instructions.  I took the composions to Mr Crawford and he said later on that they were better than last time.
06 Jul Saturday	In the morning David came to call for me.  When he came I was making a bow.  But when I pulled it, it snapped egsatly in the middle.  Soon after that it began to rain and it never stopped till just now.  I went to Ware swimming.  In my race I came last.  It rained all the time.
07 Jul Sunday	In the morning I went with Daddy and Christopher to the baths for the club.  After I had went in Christopher went in also but it was a bit too cold for hi, so we quickly got changed and went home.  It never rained all day.  And the sun shone all the time.  Daddy has fixed a pump in the caravan.
08 Jul Monday	When I came home and I was in bed, Daddy told me he was going to change his job and going to work in London instead of Watford.  He asked Christopher and I if we should move but we said “No”.  So it was all settled.  That meant that Daddy would have to ride a long way to work.
09 Jul Tuesday	When I go to school I found out that David Perkins had not come.  But from Mrs Lardi I learned that he was at the dentist.  Mrs Lardi gave us our posisions in the Nature, history etc.  I came 3nd.  I came tie with Jonathan Waymend.  I got 92 out of a hundred. I went to play with David Perkins after school.
10 Jul Wednesday	When I went swimming at the Cavindish Daddy went to the Doctor to see if he could get some sleeping tablets.  He wanted tem because he was waking up very early in the morning.  When I came out Daddy told me that Mum had been hit I the number plate. He did not get any tablets because so many people were waiting.
11 Jul Thursday	Today we went to Aunty Olive’s for tea.  Before we had tea we had a walk in the park and then we went to have another little walk in the woods.  Captani came wit hus all the time.  When we came back Christopher and I saw “Tricks Nixon”.
12 Jul Friday	Today it was Christopher’s open day.  Mummy went to it and Daddy had a little time off so he came.  From what I hear from Mummy there was a sledge, an Christopher drew a big picture of a dolphin.  It began at 10 o’clock.  And ended at about half past 11.
13 Jul Saturday	To-day in the morning I made my plans of a very small garden which I willl take to school on open day for a composision.  I went swimming with Christopher at the Cavindish.  It was Mr and Mrs Totmans silver wedding surprise party. I helped to get it ready.
14 Jul Sunday	In the morning I went swimming.  Christopher got changed but did not go in because it was a bit cold for him.  When we came back we went black-curranting and we got one big bucket full and a little more.  We also got some rubarb and a very small amount of red currents.
15 Jul Monday	To-day was Daddy’s first day to work in London.  The bus fare cost him 10/6d all together.  So he says he is going on the bike tomorrow because it is so much.  We took our reports home to-day and mine was quite good.  I cleaned my shoes for the first time.
16 Jul Tuesday	To-day Daddy went on his bike to work at London.  David P came t ocall for me in the morning and he said we had got to take our reports back for Open day.  He was right.  I went to play with him after school.  When I came home it was 6.20.  I cleaned my shoes again.
17 Jul Wednesday	Mummy went rassberry picking in the afternoon when she came back she found out she had got 5lbs and a bit.  She made some jam with it.  It was very nice.  It was out open day and Mum and Daddy went to it.  It was our last day for swimming at Cavindish.  We had a flat tyre.
18 Jul Thursday	To-day it was the school’s gala.  It began at half past five and lasted about two hours.  In the back stoke I came fourth.  But in the diving I did not no where I was because we went home before I knew.  It rained all the time we were there.
19 Jul Friday	In the afternoon I went to tea with Michael.  We played cricket on the green until six o’clock.  When we came back I played with Tim’s trains.  We had a egg for tea.  After tyea we had a game of draughts.  But I gave up so we played chess.
20 Jul Saturday	In the morning we went swimming to the Cavindish but when we got there we found that Mr Tompkin could not come so we had a lady to teach Christopher and the others.  I plaed cricket with Michale nearly all day.  Mrs Summers lent me a book and I read it quickly so I got to give it her back.
21 Jul Sunday	I went swimming at Churchill in the club.  Just before dinner Nanna adn Grandad came.  They bought  lots of fruit for us like strtawberrys, rasberrys and potatos.  We went swimming again at Churchill in the afternoon.
22 Jul Monday	It was a lovely day.  I came home at dinner time to get my money for the conset on Wednesday.  Daddy had some people home for lunch.  I think Mummy will like the conset very much because I saw the rehersal today.  We went swimming after school.
23 Jul Tuesday	It was a lovely day again to-day and in the afternoon we went to Churchill again. When we came back I found that I had left my trunks at Churchill and Remond had left his watch so we rang up and we found out they had all been found.
24 Jul Wednesday	To-day we did not go swimming at the Cavindish.  We had our conset.
25 Jul Thursday	After school I went to play cricket on the green with Michael.
26 Jul Friday	To-day was the last day at school this term.  The teacher we are having next year is Mr. Hawley.  We shall be in class 4.  When I came home we went swimming with Ramond.  After we came back form that we had to pick Daddy up because his bike broke down.
27 Jul Saturday	Just after dinner I went swimming with Ramond at Churchill.  We stayed there for about 4 hours and had a smashing time.  Christopher wanted to go but he did not go. Daddy mended his moter bike and found out what was wrong with it.
28 Jul Sunday	Inn the morning we went swimming at Churchill with the club.  I did my first lenth in breaststroke.  I am pleased with myself.  Just before bed time we played cricket with Ramond.
29 Jul Monday	To-day Uncle Bill came, and after tea I and Daddy took him a little walk round the place (Christopher did not know this because he was in the bath)
30 Jul Tuesday	To-day we went down to Churchill for the day.  We took our own lunch.  Miss Jones, Miss Robinson and Miss Darsee came with us.  At the baths I saw Ramond and his Dad said that we could stay, and we shared our lunch with him.  It was a lovely day.
31 Jul Wednesday	We went to the baths again.
01 Aug Thursday	In the morning we went to Aunty Audrey’s for dinner.  Mummy broke the glass in her clock and just before we went to Aunty Audrey’s she took it to the jewer.  We went to the baths after.
02 Aug Friday	I amd a very good bow and arrow.  Michael came to call for me and I showed him how well the bow went but I lost the arrow in Mr Logan’s.  Michael came and called for me in the afternoon as well.
03 Aug Saturday	It poured with rain all day.  The only time we went out walking is when we went to buy some fish food for the fish. He has had none since last week.  Dr. Ward died.
04 Aug Sunday	I went swimming in the rain and this time I did only breaststroke with Mr. Weston.  It poured with rani all day.  Daddy made a step with the caravan.
05 Aug Monday	Just fater dinner Ramond and all of us went to the baths.  They was not many people there, because they wwere all at the carnival.  Ramond has got a new tent.
06 Aug Tuesday	Mummy tidied up all the rooms for Aunty Vicy who is coming tomorrow.  I went to tea at Michaels and had a good time.  When I came back I looked at the last episode of Ned Kelly.
07 Aug Wednesday	We waited all day at the gate for Aunty Vicy to come.  Mummy thought that they would come at dinner time so we had a big dinner ready for them.  But they came at tea time instead.
08 Aug Thursday	Just after dinner we went to the baths.  The water was suprizingly warm.  When we came back we went house hunting but have not found a house .
09 Aug Friday	We went a round the Wates house in Aunty Vicy’s car.  There was only one left and it cost about 9,000 pounds and it is a show house.
10 Aug Saturday	Jane, Christopher and I made a fair.  We also made a “buck up your brains”  It cost 3d to get in and altogether we made 1 shilling and 4 pence.  Tomorrow we are making a conjuring show.
11 Aug Sunday	T-day we went to the baths and Jan and Susan.  When we came back Aunty Vicy and Unle Bill had all ready gone house hunting.
12 Aug Monday	It rained and in the morning Jane and I went to the shops to buy some pegs.  We bought bac the clock.  We had a lovely tea.
13 Aug Tuesday	When we went to the baths we found out that Daddy had the seasons but they let us in because they know we have got seasons.
14 Aug Wednesday
15 Aug Thursday
16 Aug Friday
17 Aug Saturday
18 Aug Sunday
19 Aug Monday
20 Aug Tuesday
21 Aug Wednesday
22 Aug Thursday	We left camp early with the caravan inlovely weather, but all the sits were full untill we were nearly at Cannes.  There we found a very nice site at La Napoule called Azur Vacances.  It was on a hill in the pine forests.  We spent the whole afternoon on a anice beach on the way to Cannes.  In and out of the water and lying on th ebeach.  Daddy and I went snorkelling around the rocks and saw some fish.  In the evening we went up the hill were there had been som eforest fires.
23 Aug Friday	In the morning we went to a very old town inland called Grasse where the make perfurm.  On the side of the hill at the back of the town we saw some lizards.  Then we went to the Grottod of St Cezaire.  A guide took us round them (he talked in French of course but Daddy told me and Christopher what he said).  Some rocks had formed into a skeleton.  It was alled the Phantom.  Some of the stalelmites had so much iron in them that you could play a tune on them.  IN the afternoon we went swimming at the same place and saw lots of fish so Daddy decided to buy a speargun.
24 Aug Saturday	In the morning we saw some fishermen bring in their nets.  They had about 200 pounds of fish (mostly sardines). After that we went looking for a speargun, but they were too dear.  In the end we bought a poker.  It was like a trident.  In the afternoon a Belgian boy borrowed it and he speared an octopus. He gave it to a French man, because the local people eat them. The tentacles are supposed to be lovely.
25 Aug Sunday	We drove back along the coast and had a swim at Aguy.  Then we came back over the mountanis of the Esterel.  The roads were terrible, and we climbed nearly up to the television mast.  We were all very worried.  In the afternoon we went swimming at the same place.  The Belgian boy borrowed the spear again and he speared the octopus but this time it was smaller.  In the evening we had a walk around Cannes.
26 Aug Monday	We pulled out of camp quite early and ran along the coast towards the Italian border.  We had trouble finding a campsite, but at last we stopped at a place called Rocquebrune.  In the afternoon we went on the beach at Menton which was rather stoney.  Later on we walked around the town and Daddy bought some stuffed tomatos and rice e.g. they took it home for tea and Mummy said it was lovely.  In the evening the campsite good packed (?)
27 Aug Tuesday	In the morning we went early down to the beach at Monte Carlo which was rather nice.  We spent nearly all the morning in the water until the sun clouded over.  IN the afternoon we went up to the old town od Monaco.  Mummy wanted to go into the Palace, but Daddy chose the Museum.  He picked the wrong one and it cost us nearly a pound to get in.  He was upset for the rest of the day.
28 Aug Wednesday	We left the camp early and Daddy said that it cost toomuch as well.  We were over the Italian border at 9 am with no bother at all.  We pulled into a site at San Remo on the edge of the sea.  After lunch we went in the sea.  It was pretty rough but Daddy and I went in on the lilo.  When a breaker caught me I grazed my elbow.  In the evenign we went into San Remo.
29 Aug Thursday	We had a swim before breakfast then had a shower.  The sea was lovely.  After breakfast we left camp and Daddy found out that it was even more expensive than the other.  He was glad he stayed only one night.  We ran along the coast eastwards and found the beaches all stoney.  We stopped at a campinf site at Cerriale.  In th eafternoon we had a walk round the town of Albenga.  We went in the Roman Naval Museun.  Which was very interesting.
30 Aug Friday	Daddy and I went swimming before breakfast again and had a shower.  After breakfast we all spent the morning on the beach in the sun at last.  IN the afternoon we went to the Grottos of Toirano. In it were some foot prints of prehistoric man.  Also there were some bear prints.  They were huge. In anothe rpart of the cave were lots of bones which the cave man had eaten.  Later on went to Savona.  Where the van konked.
31 Aug Saturday	We went swimmnig before breakfast again and had a shower as usual.  We spent all the morning on th ebeach in the sun.  Mummy thought it was lovely.  Daddy mened the van.  The cause was dirt.  I th eafternoon we went back to the beach till tea time.  Then we had a walk around Ioano.  There was a vintage car race and we saw some of the cars.
01 Sep Sunday	In the monring it rained a little but Daddy and I stillwent in.  We stayed on the beach all morning.  Daddy did not feel well so he had a sleep after dinner while we went on the beach.
02 Sep Monday	When Daddy went to see if we could have a swim again he found out thathe sea wsa very rough and anyway there was a red flag flying.  We went ot a market and Mummy bough tlots of scarfs.  On the way home it poured with rain and we all got soaked.  We left camp.  We picked up two boys who came from Southshields.  We gave them a lift to Milan.  We went on the Autoroute and it cost Daddy a lot of money.  We camped at Monza near the race track after looking for a campsite after about one hour.
03 Sep Tuesday	We went to Milano to see the cathedral.  In the crypt we saw a body of a saint lying in state, with some precious relicts.  In the afternoon we saw a mule pulling a sledge.  This was on the way to Como.  When we came back Graham Hill was practicing.
04 Sep Wednesday	We left camp early and ran towards Lake Como and Switzerland.  It was a better day and we could see more of the scenery.  When we just reached Switzerland we lost the jockey wheel. On the climb up over the Maloja the engine kept boiling untill I told Daddy to hve the heater on.  Then we went over the Julier Pass (7,500 feet).  After some more hilly country we camped on the shores of the Wallensee.
05 Sep Thursday
06 Sep Friday
07 Sep Saturday
08 Sep Sunday
09 Sep Monday	I woke up just after midnight as we bumped on to the boat.  We had a nice crossing and came off quickly.  Some people in front of us got searched by Customs but we had no bother.  We got home just before seven a.m.  We found the garden overgrown with weeds. Christopher can ride my old two wheeler and he is very pleased with himself.
10 Sep Tuesday	To-day was our first day at school again and Chris moved in to the juniors. His teacher is Mrs. Fluff (Class 11) and mine is Mr. Hawley (Class 4).  I gave Mrs. Lardi my scarf.  She liked it very much.
11 Sep Wednesday	Nothing special happened to-day.  At school we did much the same as yesterday. The weather was cold, wet and miserable.  Daddy came home early.
12 Sep Thursday	Mr Hawley took us for game for the first time.  We played rounders and my side won.  It was sunny but a bit cold.  I bought home along letter form Mr Crawford.  They have put Christopher in the Gold Hind (Drake House).
13 Sep Friday	It was a nicer day but still a bit cold.  I had to come home for my recorder but Mummy was out so I got my recorder and left her a note.  In the evening I went to the H.H.S and D.C. gala.  I went in two races, backstroke and breaststroke.  I came second in both of them and got a sort of medal for each race.
14 Sep Saturday	It was another nice day and in the afternoon we all went ot the baths for the last time because they were closeing.  We all went in but it was so cold that we did not stop there for long.  Christopher shot in and shot out.  Dad had a row with some taxi drivers in Hemel Hempstead about parking.
15 Sep Sunday	It was another nice day.  I played with Ramond in the morning.  Daddy let me have a go on the mower in the afternoon.  Ramond lent me some football boaots.  We moved the caravan to the back garden.
16 Sep Monday	It was another nice day.  In the afternoon I played football and Christopher came to watch me.
17 Sep Tuesday	In the morning It was very misty even at half past nine. Uncle Bill left us in the morning to go to his furnished house.  It was very damp.