Friday 4 October 2013

20 July 1937

My first weekend of freedom has turned out to be my last, just as I guessed it might.  Dad popped his head round my bedroom door after he’d got the last train off and told me that he’d arranged from me to start at Mrs Clay’s on Monday – today.  Felt ever so disappointed, I thought that he might at least try to get me on the railways somehow or other.  I couldn’t see any exciting future working for Mrs Clay and I still can’t after today.  Weighing out butter and sugar is even more boring that I imagined.

So I had a blow-out over the weekend and took the train to Worth on Saturday to buy a new hat, then spent Sunday in the park listening to the band with Edith Turner.  Leaving school hasn’t knocked any sense into her.

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