A Notable Woman by Jean Lucey Pratt

Author:Jean Lucey Pratt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Saturday, 8 September

Saw another hag this evening. She was much more precise. Told me more by what she didn’t say. The whole affair seems so sordid. She saw me in his car. She saw me at work too, in a very large business. I am to stay in it. Promotion on the way. She saw me in the crystal walking in Slough (no one told her I came from Slough).

Monday, 10 September (War Diary)

I spent last week in Hove and feel much better, though could do with another three weeks at least. A fortnight’s holiday in the year is absurd and no good to anyone. I would most earnestly urge for longer holidays for everyone. At the office great changes have been taking place. The firm is constricting in every direction and no one seems to know what is to happen next. We are told to ‘carry on’, which we all do in a very half-hearted way, but in every department are complaints of lack of work.

In Hove … there were no huts for dressing (I was told that on VJ night a pile of huts and chairs and other such oddments was burned by the populace gone mad). The front and gardens are wonderfully restored. All barbed wire removed and the long grass cut and flowers planted. The Hove Town Hall was reopened while I was there for dancing. It had been the Food Office during the war. Many troops still stationed there, but going gradually. The Aussies still occupy some of the big Brighton hotels. Went to two dances, crawled round many pubs and did not bathe once.

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