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Wednesday May 8, 1985


 Moorhouse Inn

The anniversary of VE Day. Forty years on. I don't really see why the fortieth anniversary requires a royal bash in the abbey and Frank Bough showing old newsreels of the Blitz and Belsen on TV from dawn until dusk. Will they do it all again in 1995?

VE Day: 40 years on.
Dray day. It's a day late because of May Day. At 3:30 we went to Bradford. Linfood. Club Street. I stayed in the car with Samuel and Ally went in the house. It would have been a tear jerker for me. Mum's hospital bracelet was lying on the bed. I will treasure it forever. On to Duckworth Lane. Ally and Sam went to Cheap 'n Cheerful and I went to get a haircut at Clip Joint (£6) - carried out by a young man called Andy -very Duran Duran. Not happy. I came away with a centre parting looking like Oscar Wilde.  Back at Club St Ally phoned Bessie. Night off. TV upstairs. J.R. Ewing, &c. Out at 8 to phone Papa. We are venturing to Horton tomorrow. Dad wants us to collect a few loaves of bread in Settle. Mum is now on different pills - 12 in all. VE TV -- yawn.

The actress Dawn Addams has died of cancer aged 54, after a five month struggle.

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