January:

Saturday 1st Train to Bournemouth.

Sunday 2nd B ournemouth. Messiah 2.15 and 6.15. Rehearsal 10.30.

Tuesday 4th Retford. Danes Hill Hostel. 8pm. [Recital] 1.10 Kings Cross arr. 4.30. Lunch Casa Prada Eve Kisch.

Wednesday 5th Ring Roy Henderson 7.30ish.

Thursday 6th Warrington. Evening. 7.30. [Recital]. Norton Arms Hotel.

Friday 7th Electricity up to Nov[ember] ’43 L1.15.4.

Saturday 8th 1.25 from Charing X, Sundridge Park or Bromley North. Rehearsal 2pm.

Sunday 9th B romley Scotch Presby[terian]. Church. Bach Christmas Oratorio. Afternoon.

Monday 10th Maurice Codner portrait 10.30.

Wednesday 12th Maurice Codner 10.15.

Thursday 13th Photographs 2.30. Helen Pyke 3.45. MM Club 6.15. Went to Boulestin with Gerry Field Reid. Marvellous meal. Home with me after.

Friday 14th 2.30 Lesson. The Little Humpbacked Horse [ballet] and Chop Suey with Maurice. Leading a gay life. This must stop!

Sunday 16th Portrait 11am. Getting on.

Monday 17th B allet 6.45. New Theatre. Façade, Nutcracker and Job. Lovely.

Thursday 20th Neath (Glamorgan). Messiah. Evening. Norman Lumsden. Shocking pub and orchestra. 12gns.

Friday 21st 3.30 lesson. Win away for weekend. Two noisy raids.

Saturday 22nd Still here! Quiet weekend. Drew and painted Win’s frieze.

Sunday 23rd Win back. Wrote 9 letters. Short walk on heath.

Monday 24th Maurice Codner 10.30. Val Drewry [BBC] 35 Marylebone High Street.

Tuesday 25th 3pm lesson.

Friday 28th 3.30 lesson.

Saturday 29th Train to Oxford. Rehearsal 5pm.

Sunday 30th Oxford Bach Choir. W[illia]m P[arson]s [baritone]. Sheldonian Theatre. Aft. 15 gns. Rehearsal morning. Black woollie. Vaughan Williams Mass in G. Handel’s Samson. Mrs Cross, 27 Linton Rd.

February:

Wednesday 2nd Tredegar. Evening. Miscellaneous. Joan of Arc, Lord we pray Thee, Sigh no more, Bold unbiddable child.

Thursday 3rd Maurice 3.30.

Friday 4th Lunch with composer 12/6d. Mr Montague ENSA 2.30. Taxi from Drury Lane to [Royal] Academy [of Music] 3/-. Lesson 3.30 L1.1.0d

Saturday 5th Uncle Codner 10.30

Sunday 6th Cradley Heath [& District Choral Society]. Messiah. Evening. White pleated. 10.10 Paddington. 2.30 from Snow Hill, Birmingham. 12gns.

Monday 7th Wednesbury. Black short-sleeved. [CEMA]

Tuesday 8th Nuneaton [CEMA].

Wednesday 9th Rugby [CEMA].

Thursday 10th 5pm. Uncle B[ert, Kathleen’s maternal uncle]. Wolverhampton [CEMA].

Saturday 12th Train to Colne.