E went to Women’s Fellowship. Caroline came for dinner.
Notes
Grandad was unwell at this time having had a stroke in early April, see Chapter 100. Based on handwriting, I think grandma mainly kept his diary for him between 24 April and 27 August. Mostly, she used grandad’s voice. She referred to herself in the third person and grandad in the first person. So, E in this entry refers to grandma Ethel May Cecilia Parkin.
Grandma attended a women’s meeting at Drayton Methodist Church every Thursday, see Chapter 107. Grandad referred to this as DLM for Drayton Ladies’ Meeting.
Caroline refers to Caroline Douglas who lived next-door to grandma and grandad at 168 Drayton High Road. She was a year older than my sister Liz so would have been ten at this point. I think this reference to dinner probably relates to a midday meal. It was certainly grandma and grandad’s practice to refer to dinner and tea, rather than lunch and dinner, although this practice did change over time with some references to lunch coming into the diaries from the early sixties, see Chapter 92.
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