Extract from Sunday, 14th March, 1982:

This really is too bad ~ I have no objection to George contributing, but he writes so illegibly. However, he has just read it back to us and it sounds quite reasonable.

My main worry is that he won't be around to read it back for posterity. (posterity ~ the bums who will follow us.)

Perhaps you can have a seance and call up George to translate it for you. Make sure that you have plenty of beer to hand ~ in fact, hold the seance on premises licensed for beer and spirits.

On the other hand, perhaps some learned professor will spend his life decoding George's hieroglyphics and be knighted for it.

Memories of this morning ~ (just aroused by the sight of George drinking) we examined a swallow hole in Wakerly Wood. The water descended into a rocky hole in the ground and disappeared, just like George's pint.

Invented a new joke ~ is virgin birth a misconception?

Footnote: a man Max bit some weeks ago has just come in ~ on crutches! (Max now has ambitions to bite him on the crutch.)

Extract from Sunday, 21st March, 1982:

We walked up the Welland to Tinwell, the up the hill to Easton. Harris had not seen the village before, and was very impressed by its picturesque views. Church was just going in as we passed, and a choir-girl was driven up and leapt out of the car and ran up the path, all legs and fluttering red vestments.

We descended the hill and returned along the river bank, Vicci swimming from time to time in the swollen brown water. At the pumping station the siphon was working, and we watched it for a while to see if it would cut out, as there was only just enough water to sustain the seal. However it did not.

 Harris had to attend to his physiological needs.

Extract from Sunday, 28th March, 1982:

M ² has been altering her kitchen and now wants to knock down the wall of the loo to make it one with the bathroom. George suggested that we invite L.H. round to visit her after a night out on Burton, and he would do the job for her. I pointed out that if the other wall proved the weaker she could easily have a loo in the front bedroom instead.

Max and Minnie are worried by something in their paws. One regular said that it was salt left over from the winter, another said that it is some form of chemical and a foot wash was needed, and yet another that it was a form of nettle rash.