27 November 1960 Christmas shopping and harmless gossiping
27 November 1960 My dear Len and Margaret This is Sunday AM 11.45. We were very late in getting up and of course in having breakfast, which was 10.45. Still I enjoyed my toast just the same. I don’t think I will feel very hungry for lunch. I have started a new pad of writing paper for this letter, it’s a pad that Charles made up for me from odd pieces of paper. It’s quite a thick pad too, he also made me a second one. I was in two minds which one to use, I chose this one. The other one is thicker paper and ruled, it’s a very good paper, so now I’m well fixed up with writing paper. We had a heavy shower of rain at breakfast time, I think there was hail mixed with the rain. Now the sun is coming out, the forecast yesterday was there would be showers of snow in Scotland. I hope you are not going to have snow so early. Roselle starts on her week’s holiday tomorrow. I am supposed to go to town with her in the morning. It’s going to be a busy week doing Christmas shopp...