_. Queer old weather. A mild winter will certainly make it easier for the Russians when they decide to invade.
Worried about Ally. She slept until 5:30pm after having 'over slept' again. I advised her to go see a psychiatrist. She phoned to remind me that Graham and Charlotte Smith are coming on Friday for the weekend. Charlotte is an opera fanatic and that is where they are bound on Saturday, to Leeds Grand to see Opera North. A disappointment awaits them, according to Sarah, because Elizabeth Harwood, the lady warbler, is well past her prime. In fact, according to Sarah, her voice has disintegrated completely.
Lady Rose Baring, lady-in-waiting to the Queen, is a granddaughter of Louisa, Countess of Antrim, who was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria. Lady Antrim kept a detailed journal of life at court that has now been transformed into a book by Frances Donaldson, or perhaps Elizabeth Longford.
To bed far too late. It was nearly 1am.
The journal of a Yorkshire lad from the age of 17 in 1973 through several decades .... Transcribing from handwritten volume to blog may take some time ...
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Monday October 28, 1985
Moorhouse Inn Leeds LS11 5NQ We woke very much regretting our late night with young Booth. To Morrison's and then back for 11:30 (Maure...

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Moorhouse Inn I have the most disgusting hangover I have perhaps ever experienced. Ally too lay whimpering beneath the quilt and refused to...
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I have just been summoned to thee bathroom by Susie who is sitting in a hot bath in complete darkness. "Michael, the bulb's just go...
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