page 77 — December 1940

had ‘breakfast’ consisting of half a small soup plate full of arrowroot and stewed apple. Read Jamaica Inn and dozed until 1.30, when charcoal and medicine repeated. More arrowroot and apple at 2 o’clock. … Ravenous … I am very annoyed about being in the San. This is my first whole day off school for over a year … zil zfd zmt

December

Sunday 1^st

Two pieces of buttered toast for breakfast. Feel quite better but very bored. Nothing to read, so count number of separate days on which Martin Wood’s name occurs [in my diary] since he came. 88! + 3 before he came. He’s been here 289 days. … zil zfd zfr

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Tuesday 3^rd

Woke up about 8.10. Breakfast came, in widely separated and wrongly ordered instalments, then I finished reading the Yearling—a lovely  book. At 11.30 Mr. Candler came and saw me, and then I got up. I was told that I would go tomorrow soon after breakfast! Perfect! … Looked at innumerable magazines, relating chiefly to the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Finnish war. …  zil znb ztc znw zwg

Friday 6^th

Gale and rain. … Heard this from one Irish Station on radio: ‘Calling No. 1 Tory Isle. I call your attention to S.S. [blank] on the lee shore of Tory Isle.’ Then he asked all stations in Donegal to keep ready to receive distress messages. zrd

Monday 9^th

… Beggar’s Opera rehearsals in full swing, performances on Thursday and Friday. zmu zth