9 March 1959. Electric cookers and Lennard's state visit
9 March 1959 My dear Margaret and all Monday eve. It seems rather strange to me to be writing to you only, Margaret. Still I want you to have your weekly letter as usual. Wednesday is getting very near now. We hope Len has a nice trip over and no fog to delay his arrival. We received Len’s short note today saying that he had arranged to leave the conference at 4.45 on Wednesday even if it has not finished. He doesn’t mean to miss his plane, does he? Yesterday AM there was quite a thick fog. It cleared up late morning but returned in the evening. Some planes could not land, they flew back to Dinard. Today has been a fine day, nice for drying. We are having quite a bit of a hectic time these days and more so tomorrow. Well this is it, Roselle has decided that we cook by electricity, we are going to have the electric cooker this week. We have been trying to have it installed before Lennard comes. We thought this was very doubtful, anyway Nick has the order for fixing our co...