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Feb 1939

1st. German at Rugby. 3. 1st Aid practise. 6. I have a bad head all day

No 1st Aid - No Gas - I fell on stairs. Dr Henry came

No German. 9. 1st Aid practise 6.45 good class men & women

13. Gas & 1st Aid. 15. German every Wednesday. 17 Parochial church council

19. Mother ill - puemonia again. Dr Mackintosh told us of a new cure
for puemonia [M & B 693] tablets. Sulphanilmide.

23. 1st Aid practise - I began to show signs of a cold.

25/26. Stayed in bed - cold terrible chiefly in face -Sinisitus
wired for Rosalind. 28/29. bad nights. Mother in bed at Morlands

March 6th. Father died at his desk in study. Sudden angina attack
Frank came home

Mon 6th. Father buried in Syston cemetery - Full church - beautiful service
Many old choir boys & men came & filled the choir stalls &
sang beautiful music. Reg Green played the organ. A remarkable
tribute to a remarkable man. Many friends came to The Morlands
after to see mother who was in recovering from puenmonia. She was
delighted to see them. Many she had known for 60 years. They came
from far & near and were a real tonic for her. I was terribly upset
at losing father. He always seemd so well & strong especially mentally.
When the call came for him, he was sitting at his desk in his study,
marking lists of new books with his thick blue pencil for the library
just as he would have wished, could he has chosen.

Sun 19. We decided to take "Guthlaxton" at North Kilworth, a big house over looking the church, so
that mother could come & live with us when she was better
We continued in the village with 1st aid & gas instruction & all
April 3 had a gas exam. 6. School began Easter holiday. Mother went to Anderby

7 We set about cleaning & decorating "Guthlaxton"

8. Bought curtains of green damask & folk weave for the big curtains, charming

9. Easter day. Italy captured Albania

10. Moved into Guthlaxton - slept there 1st time. 17. First Aid exam but doctor did not turn up

20. Mother, Lucy & Stella came. 21. Charlie & Reg came to discuss The Morlands

22. I had a day at Stratford-on-Avon as guest of Irene - delightful day

23. Flags decorated Stratford for St George & Shakespeare - We went to church
with nosegays - talked to the vicar Noel Prentice. Saw Kamisarjerski's
production of the Comedy of Errors

25. A.R.P exam at Lutterworth. Gas passed 28. 1st Aid exam at N.K

29 To The Morlands. I pruned the roses. 30. We fetched mother fromPeterboro'