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Part 205: 6th February 1967 10.10pm

Writng this in bedroom, while E. watching “Peyton Place” on TV down below. It seems to continue indefinitely and it seems to get the women. Mustn’t be too superior about it. E. irons while viewing, and though when I used to iron I used to concentrate on the job in hand, I suppose one mustn’t begrudge her her entertainment. The sore thumb continues. I don’t know whether I’m making this the excuse…

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Part 204: 15th January 1967 3pm

Started at H.G.S. Difficult to make a fair appraisal of the school, too much influenced by externals perhaps: the cramped staffroom compared with the spacious staffroom of F.B., the rather drab hall compared with F.B.’s impressive hall. In any case, the main thing is – I think – that I shall be able to teach here without dreading any lesson, and that I shall never need to pronounce – let alone…

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Part 166: Monday, 9th August 1965, 10.00 p.m.

Part 166: Monday, 9th August 1965, 10.00 p.m.

I am a swine. Talking about asking Edith in cutting tones. She went into hospital this morning. One doesn’t want to dramatise, she is having a routine varicose-vein operation, though the ulcer is a little disturbing. Aunt Debby is staying, and all three terrors are out of sight and sound at a creche for three hours in the morning. Perhaps longer for the rest of the time – Mrs White-Howells gave…

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