when I got up stairs that I visited the girls in their room &c.
& then sat up in mine, dreading to go to bed at midnight!
July 26. Monday
This has been a sort of a nightmare of a day. I felt bluer than
brimstone some way this morning. We walked over to the wash woman's
(6 of us) & then bade Mr. Dymond
goodbye (He went up to Lovesick) and then I pressed
out a skirt and then five of us (not Maude)
went to McCracken's tho' I felt
somehow very appre- hensive and queer about it. We had a very
pleasant & hilarious row over. Hilda
was most entertaining. We got in just before the steamer and who
should be on it but
J. Longley Taylor & "Hilda Gregory's friend. We
had a chat with the former and fed him raisins. We "shopped" awhile
at the store & ordered dinner - which we had shortly after twelve.
Hilda had al- ready some
poppies and a paddle in her hat & a Lakefield
pin. At the store she got a little "Union Jack" and at the
table we put in a bunch of celery. After dinner we sat on the
veranda, but the view is not pretty and the dinner wasn't what it
was cracked up to be. Then we called on the
McCrackens
on the hill - & Mrs. McC. who has lovely
eyes and must once have been very pretty
1897
when I got up stairs that I visited the girls in their room &c.
& then sat up in mine, dreading to go to bed at midnight!
July 26. Monday
This has been a sort of a nightmare of a day. I felt bluer than
brimstone some way this morning. We walked over to the wash woman's
(6 of us) & then bade Mr. Dymond
goodbye (He went up to Lovesick) and then I pressed
out a skirt and then five of us (not Maude)
went to McCracken's tho' I felt
somehow very appre- hensive and queer about it. We had a very
pleasant & hilarious row over. Hilda
was most entertaining. We got in just before the steamer and who
should be on it but
J. Longley Taylor & "Hilda Gregory's friend. We
had a chat with the former and fed him raisins. We "shopped" awhile
at the store & ordered dinner - which we had shortly after twelve.
Hilda had al- ready some
poppies and a paddle in her hat & a Lakefield
pin. At the store she got a little "Union Jack" and at the
table we put in a bunch of celery. After dinner we sat on the
veranda, but the view is not pretty and the dinner wasn't what it
was cracked up to be. Then we called on the
McCrackens
on the hill - & Mrs. McC. who has lovely
eyes and must once have been very pretty
1897
when I got up stairs that I visited the girls in their room &c.
& then sat up in mine, dreading to go to bed at midnight!
July 26. Monday
This has been a sort of a nightmare of a day. I felt bluer than
brimstone some way this morning. We walked over to the wash woman's
(6 of us) & then bade Mr. Dymond
goodbye (He went up to Lovesick) and then I pressed
out a skirt and then five of us (not Maude)
went to McCracken's tho' I felt
somehow very appre- hensive and queer about it. We had a very
pleasant & hilarious row over. Hilda
was most entertaining. We got in just before the steamer and who
should be on it but
J. Longley Taylor & "Hilda Gregory's friend. We
had a chat with the former and fed him raisins. We "shopped" awhile
at the store & ordered dinner - which we had shortly after twelve.
Hilda had al- ready some
poppies and a paddle in her hat & a Lakefield
pin. At the store she got a little "Union Jack" and at the
table we put in a bunch of celery. After dinner we sat on the
veranda, but the view is not pretty and the dinner wasn't what it
was cracked up to be. Then we called on the
McCrackens
on the hill - & Mrs. McC. who has lovely
eyes and must once have been very pretty
