Turned out at usual time. Stayed back at night. A mistake of about 8 or 10 tons in the stock and we were there until nearly 9.30 trying to find it but didn’t. Had short walk to the post office last thing with Ernie. Stocktaking completed.
Tag Archives: Ernie
17 June 1914; Wednesday
Got up at 5 o’clock and commenced work at 6. Busy all day and very sleepy. Went to Roker at night with Ernie and listened to the band of the Terriers1 and watched the crowd for a bit. Met Charlie and Dora. Got home about 10 o’clock. Fine night.
“Terriers” (if correct): common slang for ‘Territorial Army’. ↩
16 June 1914; Tuesday
Got up about 5 o’clock and commenced work at 6 o’clock. Busy all day. Finished about 5 o’clock. Ernie and Father at Boldon.
15 June 1914; Monday
Busy at work. The stock sheets up. We didn’t work at night. Had walk with Ernie.
14 June 1914; Sunday
Sunday School Anniversary. Fine day. Mr Blaikie leading. Willie Marshall playing. Charlie sang a solo at night and a boy from St John’s Wesleyan choir sang two solos. He was very good. The service was successful. Good dinners at night. Decided to continue the service next week. Had walk at night with Ernie, Willie Whittaker, and Charlie. Sang the anthem “Send out thy light.”
13 June 1914; Saturday
Finished in good time. Went to the cricket match with Ernie and Father and saw Sunderland play against Chester-le-Street. Chester-le-Street were batting when we were at the match, and they won. Grand day. Had walk at night with Ernie.
11 June 1914; Thursday
Got up about 7.45. Fine morning. Ernie arrived at about 8 o’clock at night. Charlie and I went down to the anniversary practice rather late. Poor practice.
16 April 1914; Thursday
Got up at 7 o’clock. Grand morning. Not very well. Easy1 day. Finished at 5 o’clock. Played the piano a bit. Read. Called at the dock at dinner time for father’s compensation money. Pupil came at night and I stayed with him. Wrote to Ernie and posted it last thing. Went to bed about 11 o’clock. Felt a bit dizzy.
Illustrating the difficulties of transcription: ALL’s usual entry was “Busy day”, but the “b” and “s” strokes sometimes, as here, run together into almost a single arc: “s”. Elsewhere only a dot for the final vowel, after the stroke, is marked, though there should also be a dot before the stroke, for the first vowel; here, exceptionally, a first vowel is clearly marked, and for this reason, together with the ambiguity of the curved stroke and the fairly early finish at 5.00, I have transcribed the word as “easy”. (DL) ↩
26 March 1914; Thursday
13 February 1914; Friday
Got up about 7.20. Fine morning. In a bit trouble at work. Father shows signs of having got over cold. Dr Blair misses the morning. Went to the library and got out G.K. Chesterton’s “Defendant”1. Went to get hair cut. Played a bit and then went to Chadwicks’ and stayed until 10 o’clock. Called at General Post Office with parcel for Ernie. Wrote enquiring about business for sale2 in the Echo3.
G K Chesterton (1874-1936), St Paul’s School & Slade, writer & R. Catholic; best known now for Father Brown detective stories (as seen on TV, 2013). See also: The Defendant and Arthur Linfoot’s Library ↩
“Business for sale”: the family planned to run a corner shop because Father had no wage since his accident. ↩
“Echo”: the Sunderland Echo & Shipping Gazette, the Monday – Saturday evening paper. ↩