Shooting Before The Twelfth Editing Chips’s diaries is a huge undertaking. Not surprisingly there are a few mistakes.
June 1940 Mild weather in London today (15 C) and supposed to stay the same until the middle of next week.
Channon and Cowles I have opened a present, received in September, sent by a friend in Oregon; sensibly he used the services of Venetia Vyvyan, across the river, not the pond, in Barnes but I wanted to save it for Christmas.
What Presents Did You Get? As Bertie is only two he got up early to open his presents. Sixty years ago I did the same.
JBS Haldane If you read JBS Haldane’s entry in Wikipedia and you should, you will not read about the Spanish civil war.