| 01 Jan Monday | It snowed again to-day. We went to the shops and played out. I saw a lot of icicles. |
| 02 Jan Tuesday | I made the path clear from the snow. We went to Michael's to see what he wanted for his birthday. |
| 03 Jan Wednesday | We went to the shops and Mummy nearly fell over. I and Christopher helped Mummy clean out the cupboards. |
| 04 Jan Thursday | I hit Christopher with a snow-ball, in a snow-ball fight. We played with the BAYKO. |
| 05 Jan Friday | We played with the BAYCO and made a Yacht, club, boat, house, And a garage. Daddy bought a new suit. |
| 06 Jan Saturday | We went to Daddy's party. I got a big jig-saw and Christopher gpt a FLIP ball game. |
| 07 Jan Sunday | I helped Daddy to paint the rakts. We went to Michael's for tae. |
| 08 Jan Monday | We played with the train set. And sent messages to each other. One of the trains is broken. |
| 09 Jan Tuesday | We started school to-day. Christopher said that he is in Class 3. The people at school have changed the dinner times. |
| 10 Jan Wednesday | I took Christopher to school. Mummy went round the sales again, and bought a swim-suit, and a new pair of slippers. Daddy has put his racks up on the wall. |
| 11 Jan Thursday | Christopher was late from school again. We helped Daddy to take some books from the loft to the lounge. |
| 12 Jan Friday | Christopher came home straight from school. |
| 13 Jan Saturday | We went down to Hemel with Mummy and Daddy. I played with Michael all afternoon. |
| 14 Jan Sunday | We played pirates. Michael and I made a camp in the bilding. |
| 15 Jan Monday | When I came home from school, Mummy was making Marmalade. She had borrowed Mrs. Tomblin mincer. |
| 16 Jan Tuesday | I saw Christopher coming hom ein the mud when I was in Games. Daddy has bought a new Valve for the radio. |
| 17 Jan Wednesday | It rained very very hard in the first play-time. In Art (before we went home) Miss Beach's father died. And so she went home and is not coming back this week. |
| 18 Jan Thursday | I had to run back home because I forgot my recorder. Christopher hit Paul, all over an ice-cream. |
| 19 Jan Friday | The baker did not call, so Mummy took us to the shops to fetch bread. The handle came of the door. |
| 20 Jan Saturday | Mummy and I went to the shops to get bread. Daddy put a new lamp shae in our bed room. |
| 21 Jan Sunday | It rained in to Mummy's back door. We went to tea with Aunty Audrey. |
| 22 Jan Monday | We had two exams and are having some to-morrow. Daddy went to the DENTIST to have a filling. |
| 23 Jan Tuesday | We went to the surgery to have our smallpox injection. We did not have it, because they did not have a much vaccine. |
| 24 Jan Wednesday | We got bathed early to see the FLINTSTONES. We had an english exam. |
| 25 Jan Thursday | We had our hair cut. I got 18 out of 20 for the english exam we had on Wednesday. |
| 26 Jan Friday | Mrs. Peak did not like my hair cut. Mummy made som eleamonade, and I took a bottel to Mrs. Totman. |
| 27 Jan Saturday | We made a camp in the builder's scrap yard. |
| 28 Jan Sunday | Grandad and Nanna came to stay. Christopher got his boots full of water. |
| 29 Jan Monday | Aunty Louie and Uncle Townson came to-day. It was lovely to see them. |
| 30 Jan Tuesday | Daddy went up to London very early. I played my recorder for Aunty Louie. |
| 31 Jan Wednesday | It was snowing when we woke up this morning. We had to go in our wellings. Daddy went up to London again this morning. |
| 01 Feb Thursday | The snow had gone this morning but it was still very cold. Aunty Louie is making some krispies. |
| 02 Feb Friday | Uncle Townson and Aunty Louie went home. Mummy brought a skirt for 10s. Our neew headmaster came round the school. |
| 03 Feb Saturday | It was too misty for Grandad to go fishing. We went with Daddy to look at some radios. But he did not buy one. |
| 04 Feb Sunday | We went out with Grandad to try and find a place to fish but they were all private. |
| 05 Feb Monday | Daddy did not go to London again. Christopher got a cold when he came home. |
| 06 Feb Tuesday | Christopher did not go to school because the cold he had caught got worse. |
| 07 Feb Wednesday | Dr. Duke came, to give, Mummy and me a smallpox inject. |
| 08 Feb Thursday | Grandad , Nanna, and Mummy meet me from school. |
| 09 Feb Friday | Nanna and Mummy saw me at play-time but I did not see them. I came down to see takle were pick. |
| 10 Feb Saturday | I played out all day with Michael in our camp. Mummy and Nanna bought a new door mat. |
| 11 Feb Sunday | Nanna and Grandad went home this morning. Daddy and Chris had they smallpox. |
| 12 Feb Monday | Michael came to tea. |
| 13 Feb Tuesday | Michael came and stayed for tea again. Miss Beach had for got the exam papers. |
| 14 Feb Wednesday | Teacher read out the exam marks. I got 150 out of 200 and came 12th. |
| 15 Feb Thursday | It was very windy and cold. Daddy went to the doctor. We won at whist. |
| 16 Feb Friday | Daddy bought a wireless and a tape recorder. And I came downstairs from bed to see them. |
| 17 Feb Saturday | We changed our library books. Mummy and I won at whist. |
| 18 Feb Sunday | Daddy fixed Mummy's line post in again. We played with Michael. |
| 19 Feb Monday | Mummy stopped the comics. Daddy bought Christopher a little sum book. I bought a shilling back form my dinner money. |
| 20 Feb Tuesday | Mummy had the chimney sweeo, and a lot of soot came down. S.O.I Glenn went up in to space. |
| 21 Feb Wednesday | Christopher saw the Doctor at school. I played out when I came home from school. |
| 22 Feb Thursday | I bought my report home from school for Daddy and Mummy to see. They thought that it was very good. |
| 23 Feb Friday | Mummy had a bad big toe. I rang Aunty Audrey. We went down to Hemal to caught our library books. |
| 24 Feb Saturday | Aunty Edith and Uncle Frank came and we all went to London airport. Daddy looked at some caravans. |
| 25 Feb Sunday | Daddy bought a caravan and I went to Kings Langley to bring it home. |
| 26 Feb Monday | It was snowing when we woke up. Christopher and I helped Mummy to get the furniture out of the laundry for the decorating. |
| 27 Feb Tuesday | Daddy came home for lunch and we had a game of whist. John gave us some war soldiers and tanks. |
| 28 Feb Wednesday | David Perkins and I are monitors, we have to stay after school and pick up the paper that people have dropped. |
| 01 Mar Thursday | Miss Richard said that I was getting on nicely with my recorder. I took my mat to school and I am fraying it now. |
| 02 Mar Friday | I have finished my mat. Daddy put a first coat of paint on the sleeling in the Laundry. Auntry Ethel came with some other people to talk about France. |
| 03 Mar Saturday | I made a bow and arrow. It goes well. I tried to ligh the bon-fire and it went out. |
| 04 Mar Sunday | Daddy is painting the walls in the laundry. It snowed in the afternoon. Christopher and I played in the camp. |
| 05 Mar Monday | It snowed again, and a lot of snowballs hit me in the neck. I posted a letter for mummy. |
| 06 Mar Tuesday | Mr. Crawford came round to see us. The third year is having exams in the hall to-day and to-morrow. Mummy made us pancakes. |
| 07 Mar Wednesday | It is still very cold. Daddy came home from work with two new books, One for me all about British birds, and one for Mummy to teach her to speak French. |
| 08 Mar Thursday | Miss Richards picked out the good plays from the bad ones at recorder. Mummy changed our library books. |
| 09 Mar Friday | Christopher said a little poem in assembly, with his friend. Michael and brian could not come to P.E. because they were naughty in class. |
| 10 Mar Saturday | We played out in the rain and got splashed up to the ear's in mud. Daddy started to make a wardrobe. |
| 11 Mar Sunday | We went to Bovingdon and I went in the nose of a flying fortress. |
| 12 Mar Monday | It was cold. Daddy went to London and is having a meeting and will not be back till 9 o'clock. I am making a thing for Chris. |
| 13 Mar Tuesday | Mummy saw me running at games in the top playground. Christopher made a hole in some leather near the telephone. |
| 14 Mar Wednesday | Nanna sent Mummy a nice yellow cardigan, and Mummy looks very nice in it. I did a test and got 17 out of 20. |
| 15 Mar Thursday | I had a crew cut. I played my recorder and it was put on tape. Daddy brought me a pair of pjarms. |
| 16 Mar Friday | Mummy saw me at play-time. I am going in a hand-writing comptishon. I did some of it to day. |
| 17 Mar Saturday | I made a camp in the scrap yard. Daddy rootaretored the front front garden. |
| 18 Mar Sunday | We all went a long walk, and Chisopher bought a long piece of wood back. Daddy is using it to make the wardrobe. |
| 19 Mar Monday | At dinner-time a skipping rope hit me on the top of my right eye. |
| 20 Mar Tuesday | Daddy has a saw thote. My eye is much better. Christopher came hom elate. Mummy has got a chair, (or bed). |
| 21 Mar Wednesday | Daddy went to London and brought back with him two trolley bus seats to fit in the kitchen. We went to Michale's for tea while Mummy was ni London. |
| 22 Mar Thursday | Christopher and I went to Mrs. Jone's house for tea because it is Mrs. Jone's birthday. I came home to let daddy in. |
| 23 Mar Friday | Mummy made some very nice doughnut's. I eat two of them one had jam init - Christopher had some too. |
| 24 Mar Saturday | Christopher and I played on some cement bags, Christopher got cufed in it. |
| 25 Mar Sunday | Daddy made Christopher and I a bow each. They both go very well. |
| 26 Mar Monday | I played out a little, with my bow in the back garden, be for I came in the house. Christopher forgot to take his reading book back to school. |
| 27 Mar Tuesday | Michael did not come to school because he had the german measels. |
| 28 Mar Wednesday | Mummy went to Mrs. Ward and she gave Mummy a very good book for me to read. I hid some chalk in the back garden. |
| 29 Mar Thursday | Daddy gave Mummy her breakfast in bed this morning because he was up early. |
| 30 Mar Friday | Mummy, Christopher and I went to the dentist. I have ao little fillings to be down, Mummy's cloths line fell down. |
| 31 Mar Saturday | I went to Michael's and he is better. We made a very good camp in the scrap yard. |
| 01 Apr Sunday | Mother' day. Mummy had her breakfast in bde, I gave her one shilling. Daddy gave her two tape measures and some chocolates and some money for a plant. |
| 02 Apr Monday | We did a mime at school. It was about Roman's building roads. Paul has the German measels. Michael came for tea and we played marbles. |
| 03 Apr Tuesday | Mummy lost her opuse when she took us to the library and found it in the middle of the road. |
| 04 Apr Wednesday | It rained a very lot and I got wet coming to school. W edid not go out three play-times. Daddy has got a new tape for the tape-recorder. |
| 05 Apr Thursday | Daddy to London and the got stuck in traffic-jam and was late home. A boy chased me home from school. |
| 06 Apr Friday | I took Christopher to school. I play with Michael and Peter out side. |
| 07 Apr Saturday | I played on the buildins with Peter and Christopher, we had two sort of nails which could open the doors. |
| 08 Apr Sunday | We played on the Biuldins again with the keys and went in a lot of locked houses. |
| 09 Apr Monday | I learned about prism at school. I saw a film called "Lady and the Tramp". |
| 10 Apr Tuesday | Cristopher woke up this morning very early with a nose bleed and he woke us all up too, he was very good about it. |
| 11 Apr Wednesday | There was a football match at School. The team's were Scott, Drake, Hudson, Cook, the part I saw Hudson and Drake played the score was 0 0. |
| 12 Apr Thursday | Michael's mother has the German measles so Michale came to tea. I gave Michael my bow and Daddy made me another. |
| 13 Apr Friday | Daddy came home for lunch. We played at Michael's on roller skates. I fell over a lot of time. |
| 14 Apr Saturday | Daddy lit the bonfire and Michale and I played round it. |
| 15 Apr Sunday | I helped Daddy with a lot of jobs. I went to the post twice, I chopped some wood, and I helped him with the garage door. |
| 16 Apr Monday | It was a very cold and miserable day. I helped Mummy by cleaning the rack fo rher to paint, I played withMichael in the afteroon. |
| 17 Apr Tuesday | Christopher and I did the shoping for Mummy, at Bennett's End. My tooth came out in the afternoon. |
| 18 Apr Wednesday | We went to Hemel Hempstead to do the shopping with Mrs. Totman. Here are some of them, appls, butter, cooking fat, cheese, etg. I got 2-/ for my tooth. It was a very nasty day. |
| 19 Apr Thursday | We saw the Queen coming from Westminster Abby after she had given the Maundy money. She waved to us. I had the pigeons all over me. |
| 20 Apr Friday | I helped Daddy in the garage, Uncle Wally came and Timothy played trains with usin our bedroom. Christopher and I played with them at whist. |
| 21 Apr Saturday | We covered the lid of Daddy's big box with polythene to make it water-proof to put spare wood in it. Uncle Ken showed us to nests in his garage. |
| 22 Apr Sunday | Daddy finished clearing out the garage and put the van in for the very first time. Christopher and I lit a bon-fire. |
| 23 Apr Monday | Michael and I played out. We got some frog sporn from Mr. Totman's pond. Michale found a frog to put with them. |
| 24 Apr Tuesday | We went to Aunty Audrey's for dinner and to pick up Aunty Val to stay for the night. Because they had just come from Hollend. |
| 25 Apr Wednesday | We took Aunty Val to the bus stop at St. Albans. I played on the tree with a posen called David how came from neax door. |
| 26 Apr Thursday | We went to St. Albans with John and Mrs. Totman. And I got some new jeans. The temprigch was about seventy degrees. |
| 27 Apr Friday | Timothy, Evert, and Aunty Maru came to dinner and tea. We climed the tree camp. The frog sporn is in tatpoles. |
| 28 Apr Saturday | We had a good play out at war all day. Daddy did some more concreting on the path. Christopher hurt his leg. |
| 29 Apr Sunday | We played war again. Chrstopher's foot is better. John made us some wooden guns. In the evening I went with Daddy to get: Towbar. Small Calor cylinders. Sleeping bags. |
| 30 Apr Monday | We started school and Mr. Crawford our new headmaster spoke to us at assembly. We had no potatoes at school for dinner, We a cob instedd. |
| 01 May Tuesday | Daddy came home early to fix the towbar. I got sixpence of getting stones for Mummy. It was a very nice day. |
| 02 May Wednesday | I had a headache at school because a cold in the nose. I had a very bad night too. |
| 03 May Thursday | I went to Michaels' fo rtea. Mummy has her passport photograpgh taken. I had anotehr bad night. |
| 04 May Friday | Daddy had his passport photograph taken. I went to the Dentist and had two fillings. Mummy saw Mr. Crawford and Miss Beach about the holidays |
| 05 May Saturday | Daddy started …. |