Saturdays 21st December 1935

Nowadays, work does not have the same cheering effect as it once did. Just lately. Nowadays, I often leave the works feeling depressed. I suppose we all think sometimes that our life is futile. Lord knows I should be happy enough, with no immediate shortage of money, Christmas a few days ahead and after that a rise – perhaps promotion. Yet I am not!

It must be three months since people first began to talk about Abyssinia and war. The situation is still difficult – and dangerous. There’s hate between Italy and England.