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Travel usually England. Very alert and interested in international problems, still have a residual head cold, so expect to stay by the heater this afternoon. In evening a long very interesting conversation with the lawyer on the welfare state and its abuses industry etc.
Nov 21. Up at 7 breakfast at 8. Clear & sunny still very cold. Good walk just telephone no plane until the 23th. A long walk for exercise and window shopping bought a book of early New Zealand travel which I am enjoying, went to bed at 8 PM to keep warm.
Nov 22 Up at 7 breakfast at 8 AM. Wrote to Bertha and Anne. After a walk settled down with book, gas heater on in lounge in afternoon so quite comfortable. Went to bed at 8 1/2 hr to get warm.
Nov 23. Up at 7 breakfast at 8 AM. Still cold and cloudy, cold a little better cleared & took a walk in the sun for an hour and a half Thanksgiving dinner of soup, steak and kidney pie and apple sponge (apple sauce, sponge cake with custard sauce), served hot with a cup of tea read in the afternoon and took a walk. Went to bed at 8 PM to keep warm.
Nov 24 Up at 7 breakfast at 8 AM Clear and sunny this morning. Long walk until 1 1/2