page 48 — June 1940

word ‘honeysuckle’. He got terribly worried about everything, and sounded as if he were going to cry all the time.  ztc zem

We passed a cement lorry which had been burning for two hours, and had collapsed in the middle and was setting in the cement … We stopped at a guest house in Glastonbury in Somerset. zmo zac

Tuesday 25^th

In the middle of the night they had their first air raid warning here. The guest house proprietors and several children (and a baby who screamed intermittently for the whole 3½ hours) ran about the  house shouting ‘Air Raid! Air Raid!’ and all the children got awfully excited. Got to sleep after about 3 hours. zar

We looked at the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, a terrific building about 500 yards long …We arrived for tea at Mawgan Porth where we had a bathe, then went to Newquay. The country is marvellous and the hotel very comfortable. zss

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