Echoes of Home
1st Friday …School went very easily today with only seven in my class, five in
Pete’s and Claude’s up at Rexon’s Cove to do the burying. The day has gone very
well. I’m just reading “How Green Was My valley” by Richard Llewelyn which I
swapped a few days ago with Margaret Burden. It’s by far the best book I’ve
read in a long time. There’s a quote I’d like to insert here which is very true
and a forewarning of increased maturity in myself,
“As you grow older, so things will come plainer and your brain
stronger to meet them.”
In so many ways the story reminds me of life back in Wales and shows me graphically what it must have been like for Mum and
Dad when they were first married. Not so many hardships as are portrayed in the
book I don’t suppose.
Last night it
was still light at 10.00 p.m. which was very
late I thought. Days are getting much longer now after the short ones we’ve
had. Winter is closing and spring is coming at last. It’s great just to be able
to walk on the bare ground again. I feel I’ve got springs in my heels after
walking on snow for so long. It’s pleasantly mild today. It’s now 11.50 p.m. and I’ve just returned from Nath’s
where I had a bake apple lunch. After a seal supper I went to the restaurant,
played a couple of games of pool with Guy Burden and then went on to Nath’s
where I spent the rest of the evening showing them my slides and later on
getting tormented by Nath himself. Great laugh. They are very nice people who
move out to George’s Cove this spring. Actually, John and Aunt Maude are
staying in so that John can finish his exams. At the moment Jean and Betty are
here playing darts whilst Rita and Scott play the part of taxidermists. They’re
stuffing one of the Whitecoats that Scott obtained. He’s been working today,
believe it or not, putting a floor in one of Ray’s boats with help. He’s going fishing
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