Sunday December 18th 1932

Up early‑for a Sunday ‑ and hastened to the shop. Arrived 7.30. The others drifted along ‑Paddy, Lynn, Langley, Ball and Woollerton. It was cold standing on the pavement outside the locked shop, so we were soon pushing and shoving and fooling about until a Policeman arrived and threatened to 'take us along'. The rest of the staff eventually appeared and then, at 10.30am Mr Lanning, so at last we got out of the street and into the shop. An hour of' waiting!

Speedy buttering until 1.30 pm. Lynn and Paddy had a fight. Science against rage; Lynn is a good boxer. Paddy went down once and sustained a black eye.

Wrote letters after dinner. Have a tremendous appetite these days, the despair of the Wood household. My weight is nearly 10 stone 11 lbs. Visited Mrs Greasley after tea, a Toc H job. She is getting very old and feeble now. She is nearly 80, a great age.