Wednesday February 12, 1986

 Chillandham Cross, Itchen Abbas SO21 1AH

Ash Wednesday

Breakfast was awful. The atmosphere very bad. Ally and Bessie just rub each other up the wrong way. We went out to Winchester when Samuel had his afternoon nap. We went to a travel agent and Ally borrowed a video of the island of Lesbos where, for some reason, she would like to holiday. I have always imagined Lesbos to be crowded with butch ladies in deer stalkers, plus fours and monocles. Those ghastly feminist types with more beard growth than George Michael. In fact the island seems peaceful and suitable for small babies. We would like a foreign holiday in May or June '87 when baby will be 9 or 10 months old. ______. We went to the Old Vine to see Graham and his brother-in-law Michael Lynn, who works for the Hampshire Chronicle. Graham is en route to Leeds, would you believe, where he is to meet the adonis Anthony Browne, who makes Oscar Wilde look like a brickie. 

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