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January 1953
Thursday 29
Lovely warm summer day. Delys got here early so I got no typing done. When she left after lunch I felt tired so did the correcting of yesterday's typing and had to attend to the figs. Found a 10 oz. apple cucumber on the self-sown vine in front. Wrote a couple of letters & did a few clearing up chores. Rang Helen Duggan about tomorrow evening. Lovely warmth at last let me take off my woollen underclothes.
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January 1953
Friday 30
Another glorious day. Pixie rang at 8.a.m & urged me to get on with the ms. I worked on it and did the figs again. at 6 went to Duggans for dinner & McLaren took me to N. McVicker's play "The Twig is Bent" at Rechabite Hall, and Mr & Mrs Kimber brought me home. K. still wants to paint me. Wore no woollens again & Margerie's spotted organza dress from N.Y. & felt that it looked nice.
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January 1953
Saturday 31
No sleep except between 4 & 5 a.m then again from 6 till a rotten little scrap of a he thing rang the bell at 7.30 to ask if Brown a dental mechanic lived here. Glen rang twice. I tried to sleep in afternoon but Helen Blood telephoned. The lovely warmth collapsed into cold drizzle in late afternoon & will ruin all the dozens of figs I had labored to bag. Reading the Caine Mutiny with interest. Took elixir of dormel & slept nearly 7 hours - such a relief.
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February 1953
Sunday 1
Grey cool day with few spots of rain. Mrs A in to telephone. Florrie Knox rang up to say Nellie Macauley died last week. Dal called & left note. I must have been down doing the figs & did not hear the bell. Did some more typing.
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February 1953
Monday 2
Warmish grey day. In evening Mrs A & I went to local movies Gary Cooper in High Noon & March in Death of a Salesman. Met the Duggans on the Station bridge & Alex Shepherd rang up. Typed a little more.