Friday 10th December 1943

There certainly is a big party for the boat this week. In this ward, Cpl. Collis, Hardy, Taffy, Joe Meek, The Boat Toucher, Nobby Brown and the two kitchen Scots, Murdoch and Porter, are due to go tonight. And myself.

The Boat Toucher is wildly excited at the thought of going. I'm not, at present, as I have not forgotten the previous disappointment.