Diary Entry: Took Miss Daley Aldershot & on the Reigate. Saw “A Canterbury Tale”. Diary notes: ‘A Canterbury Tale’ was at least the third Powell & Pressburger film KPD had gone to see (after ‘A Matter of Life & Death’ and ‘The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp’). Some of my favourite films too, but …
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Diary Date: 23rd August [1944]
Diary Entry: Bomb near depot early. Diary notes: Even at this relatively late stage in the war, there were still days or events which made KPD mention it, such as here.
Diary Date: 22nd August [1944]
Diary Entry: Spent evening Valerie Finchley. Diary notes: Valerie Evans was a friend KPD had met after joining the A.T.S.
Diary Date: 20th August [1944]
Diary Entry: G. [Grahame] adorable. Left 3.30 hitched Chelmsford. Diary notes: Grahame, KPD’s nephew, born in 1942, was not quite 2 years old.
Diary Date: 19th August [1944]
Diary Entry: Moved back Empire way. Went Dallinghoo for night. Good hitches & fish & chips by roadside. Diary notes: Dallinghoo, a village near Woodbridge in Suffolk, (north of Ipswich) was where Anthony (when not away serving) and Peggy Dell lived with their son Grahame. KPD spoke of hitching during WW2 in later life, saying …
Diary Date: 15th August [1944]
Diary Entry: Harlesden am. London pm. Diary notes: A typical day’s work, it seems. But KPD gives little detail.
Diary Date: 13th August [1944]
Diary Entry: Breakfast in bed. Lovely warm day. Diary notes: Given the fact that KPD had worked for a decade, then had been serving in the armed forces, ‘breakfast in bed’ must have been a welcome surprise. It also links in with the idea that the Duffs were likely to employ staff, like KPD’s friend …
Diary Date: 12th August [1944]
Diary Entry: Went to Oakley Green near Windsor to stay Maj & Mrs Duff & Miss Noyes Diary notes: Miss Noyes [aka ‘Moona’] was a friend of KPD’s (they went on some holidays together); She was, like KPD, a Nanny/Matron, and was also at Rossholme. She was with KPD on the latter’s birthday in April …
Diary Date: 11th August [1944]
Diary Entry: Curzon St. Capt Battey Diary notes: Probably the Captain mentioned twice before, but KPD spells the name differently here. Whilst generally very accurate, her spelling does occasionally waver!
Diary Date: 9th August [1944]
Diary Entry: Hampton again. On rushes pm. Diary notes: ‘Rushes’ refers to the raw film shot during one day. See: https://www.mediacollege.com/glossary/r/rushes.html
Aunt Pamela's War 