Margaret and I read aloud to each other out of the ‘Sword in the Stone’. Very sultry, good sky but no storm. zfl zbn zwr
Tuesday 11th
I stayed in bed all day and made the Gloster Gladiator. After tea, trying to make the Spitfire look better I ruined it, and so sandpapered it clean and wrote to Hamleys for some new transfers and paint … zil zmd
I was told to my great surprise that Italy had declared war on us yesterday, I wasn’t told then. Just as John goes to the Mediterranean. Got a good navy too. … zfl zsl zwg
Wednesday 12th
… The ‘Gladiator’ is finished and looks jolly good. I put a dashboard in yesterday. … Foul news, Germans advancing to Paris. French tiring. … zmd zlb
Friday 14th
On the one o’clock news the Germans were in Paris. French line unbroken but exhausted. Italians have done nothing, we captured 60 men, two officers and 33 machine guns with no casualties! … zlb
We heard where the school are going. … We go to Newquay in Cornwall, on or before June 26th. … zev zsr
Saturday 15th
… Dr. Hopkinson lent me two bird magazines. He showed me round his garden. It is a very nice one but the rain has been so black, probably from smoke from the Great Battle, that lots of the flowers were black. … zwl zwr
Monday 17th
… I spent the rest of the day reading ‘Beau Geste’ by P.C. Wren. Daddy had had him as a patient once, and had asked him what his profession was! He said that he was an ex-soldier, and the next day Daddy got a present of two or three of his books. … zbn zfl zmw zso
Everyone very depressed as France has stopped fighting. Will we go on? zwg zem
