1st January 1940

Went to a new year’s dance last night.  It all seemed a bit quiet, people weren’t really in the mood for it.  A lot of people were talking about that rationing that starts next week.  Gordon Leon turned up – fancy his mother letting him out!  He asked me to dance with him and I wasn’t sure if I should or not.  He had a funny look in his eye.  So in the end I said alright, just one dance and he just stared at me the whole time, never spoke.  Afterwards he kept asking if he could walk me home, until at last Mrs F pushed him away and told him to clear off.  He gave her quite a funny stare and then wandered off.  I didn’t see him again so he must have gone home.  Me and Joan and Mrs F talked about him all the way home.  According to Mrs F, a lot of people think that Mrs Leon is a witch and the she curses people.  Mrs F believes it and says that she got rid of her own husband using witchcraft when she got fed up of him.  What an odd family!