Day off today. Tried to get the moped going but no luck. Heavy rain all day. Changed to snow at night. Went to the WSheaf for a bit. Nell went to bingo. She asked Earle to come and do moped.

Not a very nice day. Drizzling all the time. Did Gay’s car. Moped packed up. Getting a new plug for it. Best down here about the ventilation. Miss Robb got engaged Wednesday.

A nice mild day again. Dot and Jane at home. Cleaned the lab bins out and a lot of rubbish from glass room. Moped missing bit. Have to get it seen to.

A nice mild day with some slight rain. Ron put a new door on the boiler room. Chopped old one up. Cleaned the incin. stump out. 600 galls of oil.

A nice mild day but a strong wind blowing. Did Atfield’s car and cleaned both the jets. A heavy shower round about 4pm. Cleaned the plug on my moped.

A mild day again with slight rain in the afternoon. Stayed for dinner and went for petrol 5/8. Did the flues. No.2 very dirty. Len on two days holiday.

Got up at 9.30am. A nice mild day again. Finished pruning the roses. Went for a kip after dinner. Dot, Ron and Jane came for tea. Saw Ron’s new watch. Very nice.

Day off today. Got up about 9.15am. A nice mild day. Cleaned my moped. Went to Sheaf at night. Saw Mick. Paid him for the tickets 7/-. All square now again.

A lovely mild day with sunshine. Car washing G.B.H.T. and B2 in the week making 8 to date. Had half a week’s pay bonus today. Bert did electric blanket for me.

A frost at first but nice and sunny later. Dot and Jane home today. Washed Bill Barnes’ car. Did outside Ts. Leg fairly good today. Lpool beat Leicester 1 none last night. Ron got (drawing of a football).*

(*FA Cup 6th round replay. I have conferred with my dad, who has no memory) of getting the football after that match, which seems unlikely. So, no idea what that means.)