1936


TUESDAY 21st JANUARY 1936

Death of King George V

   Mammy is crying because the King is dead. It is in the paper.

WEDNESDAY 17th JUNE 1936

A terrible accident

   Daddy is in hospital. He got knocked off his motor bike. A policeman came to the door. Mammy said you have come about my husband. The policeman said I am glad someone has told you — I do not like to be the bearer of bad news. Mammy told me Daddy would not be coming home at dinner time. Mammy knew what had happened. She is very frightened of losing Daddy.

TUESDAY 20th OCTOBER 1936

Always the same nightmare

   When I go to sleep everything is black and I scream because I know the black will turn to white and I am falling.

webwork by Jim Nagel at Abbey Press, Glastonbury — this edition published 2007-06-30