12 June 1960. To have something done, be prepared to pay
12 June 1960 My dear Len & Margaret Sunday evening. It has been a dull & sunless day, it is now raining. I don't know if Margaret & Charles will come. I don't really know what to start saying. There is not much to say. Effie & Philip Le Brun spent the evening here on Friday. They phoned about 5.30 to say that they would like to come that evening. Well we didn't mind really, we were pleased to see them. But we would perhaps have preferred another evening as Kay & Arthur were coming & Friday is their evening. However we spent a nice evening all together. Effie wanted us to go to them on a Sunday, but as usual Father told her he doesn't want to go out, therefore it was decided that we would go one afternoon for afternoon tea. When Kay takes us out, we are to let Effie know when that will be. We must not leave it too long, because Effie will think we don't want to go at all. On Friday evening we had some English people visiting us w...