Tag: Hot

• Friday 7 September 1973

  Ethel went to the Hospital at Norwich serving in the canteen. Still hot. Barbara brought me a wooden elephant for me to adjust the hinges. Notes Ethel refers to my grandmother Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. She volunteered in the canteen of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, see Chapter 100. Barbara refers to Barbara Carpenter. She…

  September 7, 2023

• Wednesday 5 September 1973

  I was not too well. I think I had worked too hard gardening. The major came to borrow my tower mill for their Harvest Thanksgiving. 84 FAR. Notes For details of grandad’s health and illnesses, see Chapter 100. For details of work grandma and grandad did in their garden, see Chapter 109. The major refers…

  September 5, 2023

• Wednesday 15 August 1973

  E & D went with a party of ladies to Heatherset to a new opening of a Methodist S.S. Weather hot. Ron put us a mole trap in the garden. Notes E refers to my grandma Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. D refers to her first cousin, Dorothy Rose, who we knew as children as Auntie…

  August 15, 2023

• Monday 18 June 1973

  Ethel went to Norwich in the afternoon. I got some pieces of wood ready for the slabs. Weather very hot. Notes Ethel refers to my grandmother Ethel May Cecilia Parkin. For details of the slabs grandad laid in the garden, see Chapter 109.

  June 18, 2023