Diary extracts for June 1947

1st Jun 1947:

Started to paint a woman with baby in a field of buttercups. Have decided to paint what I like at weekends.

5th Jun 1947:

Cooler today. Yesterday the hottest ever. Got two food parcels off to Germany.

5th Jun 1947:

Crispin ill with ear infection at St George’s. Lasted until the 9th.

15th Jun 1947:

Crispin had earache all day . . . so Dr Walker came along to give an injection. [But Crispin was allergic to the penicillin]

15th Jun 1947:

Crispin sick! all over the bedclothes. I worked for hours on the girl in the buttercup meadow trying to keep it light.

17th Jun 1947:

Crispin much better. We went to Lyndhurst to get emergency card on his ration book.

18th Jun 1947:

Oxford to draw J N Bryson for Balliol picture.