My Granddad is Keeping Busy

My granddad died in 1983. For the previous 20 years, he kept a diary, recording his day as a farm worker and then through his retirement. We are lucky enough to have his notebooks, all the entries in block capitals, often in pencil. He always tells us about the weather, sometimes about what is going well at the allotment. We get updates of how Liverpool are doing and the occasional political thought. He suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, was always in pain, but you would never know from these entries. My mum once described him as a contented man. Who knows, really, but certainly, there is something soothing about these entries. So I thought I would share them with you. We have a few years to cover so buckle up.

Thursday 3rd June, 1965

Another lovely day, warm and sunny. Ladies Day at Neston. Car washing in the morn. T,B. Did some more mowing up the drive. A lot of stuff to burn. Pig off Rolly.

(I remember going to Ladies Day with my Grandma. An annual walk of the Ladies Club, I seem to remember a fair as well. The walk first took place in 1814, as part of the Ladies Club, with the 1817 regulations stipulating that “on the first day of June members meet at the Clubroom at ten o’clock in the morning and walk in orderly procession to the Church, where an appropriate sermon shall be preached, this to be followed by taking tea together.” https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society/)

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