I am ashamed to say I dawdled about after lunch and it was not until nearly 4 o’clock that I got up-Fields for the Sports. I talked to Mrs Smurthwaite and Miss Smurthwaite for quite a long time, always an amusing experience. Mrs S. remarked that the first things she saw on coming up-Fields were Dr Troutbeck, the Coroner and the Police Band, ‘one expected something to be brought in on a slab you know!!’
I gather that Smurthwaite thinks it a great honour to be my fag!
