E & D went to Miss Cooke’s. 11 of us there for a musical afternoon.
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 usually referred to herself in the third person and grandad in the first person. So, in this entry, E refers to grandma, Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. However, later she refers to “us“.
D refers to grandma’s paternal cousin, Dorothy Rose, who we knew as Auntie Dolly. She lived in Bedford but visited grandma and grandad several times per year always coming to Norwich by bus, see Chapter 106. She had arrived just over a week earlier.
Miss Cooke was a friend of grandma’s through the women’s group she attended at Drayton Methodist Church. They did not have formal meetings at church during August but often met in each other’s houses as on this occasion, see Chapter 107.