Milder today with showers and strong winds. Cleared silage bins again. No.2 burner on red first thing. Digging among the rhododenrons. Paid 3.9 3 weeks canteen yesterday. X

Sharp frost last night and very cold wind blowing today. Got two new knives for Howarth. Sent for two new washers for hot filters. Did some forking around the fruit trees. Got 5/- off Dot. Won 4.

(“Got 5/- off Dot. Won 4”?)

A very cold north wind blowing today though sunny. Forking in the rose garden. Cleaned both jets in the afternoon. The highest speed ever recorded for a gale in the UK yesterday. 103 mph.

(I think this was the Sheffield hurricane, which killed four people in Sheffield and Barnsley.)

A strong wind blowing with heavy rain, but quite mild. 600 galls of oil came. X. Only washed 1 car. Shacks. 26 to date. Moving furniture into new offices today. Got pullover off Josie.

Got up about 10am. Dug my rose beds. Joe brought my load of muck. Threw it over into the garden. Strong wind blowing with rain. Ron and Dot came for tea.

My day on today. A beautiful mild sunny morning. Put a load of muck on the trailer for myself. Went to P in the afternoon. Got rained off 3. Much colder at night.

(Got rained off 3 – no idea)

Quite mild today with a lot of cloud and drizzle. Car washing again. H.A.S.B. 35 to date washed. Cleaned both jets again and cleared silage bins.

(More news on yesterday’s pig burning. My mum says: “He was burning a pig because at Weatherstones owned by Bibby’s the vets did postmortems on pigs and other animals.”)

Lovely sunny day though a cold wind still blowing. Burnt a pig.* One of ours. Forking down the drive. Finished it all by five. Awful mine disaster in Germany. Nearly 300 killed.

* I think this says burnt a pig. But why?

(Luisenthal mine disaster, 7th February, 1962.)

Fairly mild but heavy showers at times. Also wind strong at times. Started to fork the big border up the drive. Gordon and Len making place for shed in front of turkey pen.

A bit milder today but wind still strong. Dug the border opposite Mr Muir’s office. Raked twigs off the lawn. Cleaned both jets. Put a new one in No.1 burner. Sent away for new jet.