I have had a very bitter disappointment. Grant’s were beaten by HBB in the Final for the Shield by 2-0. There is no doubt they were the better team but the defeat has made me very miserable and depressed. I … Continue reading
The House Section had another drill this morning and were really a little smarter so I have done some good. They are still very bad but there was, I was glad to see, more ‘go’ in them today. Influenza and … Continue reading
An even bleaker day. Barrington-Ward retired ‘out-of-school’ this morning apparently with ‘flu. Our patients are better; Hodgson, Shore and Smurthwaite went out today and came down Hall for lunch and tea. We all but finished ‘The Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in … Continue reading
It is no good. I tried hard to be ‘a very great seigneur indeed’ tonight but like Rowland Edwards and his philosophy ‘my cheerfulness kept breaking in!’ In other words I had up Sedgwick for being out of bed. He … Continue reading
Today we are faced with another problem. ‘Dearmer‘, so his mother writes (though unbeknown to him), ‘arrived home feeling very sick and with his trousers slashed rent.’ He had, apparently owing to having got up top in his form, been … Continue reading