Saturday, 17th June 1944

The rain had stopped for a while, so we could take advantage of the dry spell to have another recce of the district.

They were constructing a new road around St. Gabriel. This was going to be part of a future Bayeux by-pass, someone said, but the structure was unique. As far as we could see it was simply a number of parallel long, wide strips of chestnut paling laid flat on the bulldozed and flattened muddy ground. We had not yet encountered the specially adapted Churchill tanks that performed this type of work.

Back in the barn, we passed round our first copy of "Tam O'Shanter", the 15th Scottish Division "news" sheet. There was no mention of individual units and no news of the build-up, in fact no real news at all. The only item I can recall was about a Don R who lost his way to St. Gabriel and was stopped by an M.P. who asked where he thought he was going, then said, "Well, if you carry on the same way, you will meet him soon enough. The enemy is shelling the road from here on!”

Sunday, 17th June 1945

15th Scottish Div. Opera Company presented Smetana’s “Bartered Bride”. There was no rule about officers having front seats, but they did, presumably because they were the first to be offered seats. Evidently, they had not taken their full allocation, and so I found myself in the front row.

Dearest Bundy, dearest dearest doctor Bundy I want to hug you and then plant a kiss on your cheek for the help you are trying to give me - dearest Mr. Haldav the same for you also - you are soooooo helpful but i am very willing but my brain cannot understand grid and/or password master for security devices. etcetera etcetera etc...
why can I not just administer some medication orally or by injection as ordered by the good doctor don't you see i don't know where to click

It used to be easy to post at UD , all those tricks are giving me terrible headaches and where ever I click all sort of things happen, you would be amazed

Dear Haldav do you mean to say I clicked something and it was OK? Thank you for answering my post. Well I guess you are right, it IS amazing that we can communicate.
I also get that Indian gentleman from Delhi methinks and he speaks such a pure English which is also amazing..

Bundi tried to hep me too but his post is lost somewhere in the depth of my computer he was telling me something about a slash but I failed to understand what to do with that slash
I am trying to make this funny else I will cry.

Thank you for finding my post. It is 1:16 AM here in this antepodean land people call 'down under'. now

1975: Missing earl guilty of murder

An inquest jury decides Lord Lucan murdered the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children.

Tuesday, 20th June 1944

Most of the mud had now dried out and we could work outside without trampling mud into the barn. The weather varied between the 6th and the 19th June, but was not sufficiently bad to prevent a steady allied build-up and the construction of the Mulberry harbours. However, the morning of the 20th June was brilliant with sunshine, too coldly brilliant, perhaps. The weather changed, and for three days the breakers roared ceaselessly on the beaches. "No such June storm had been known in the Channel for over forty years" wrote the British official historian.