Wednesday 29/03/2017 and looking back at the beginning of the year 62, 68,

Today is Brexit day so I decided to see if my Grandma had commented on the moment we joined the EU,  it is the first time I have really looked at what her collection consists of and realise really they are only a few  years and they do not go back that far.  It seems that they really are a creation of her very old age (she was 90 when she died) I think she might well have been a blogger though had they been around.    There are 7 actual diaries and then a number of notebooks packed with her thoughts mainly on the weather, her sister and her ailments. She underlines regularly too regularly for me to include, uses capitals in slightly odd places and likes her exclamation marks as much as I do!!.

We joined the EU January 1st 1974.  Her first diary that I have is 1962 - the diary entries  for Jan 2/3 are a bit painful, but on January 1st 1962 she just notes Snow and Frost - judging by the entries for Jan 2/3 that might be a comment on relations between her and my mother, her daughter, or about the weather!
Her first entry in the next diary 1968 was Pay Rise £8 - 10.  Tax now 27/-.
31 Dec 1974- Ear Test St Mary's.
2nd February 1976.
27 Dec 1976 very cold   28 very cold.  Went to Kingston Crescent for Olive to say farewell to Len. 29 Dec Harry came 4.15 Albert was already here.  Letter from Helen to Olive.  Len Cremation.  Porchester.  Olive/Albert - Harry.  E and F in own car.
2 January 1978  Met Mrs Sherwan and Mrs H and Tucker, former came back for tea.
30 December 1979  Very cold, but sunny. Called on Lilly 12 noon, no reply. Sat on sea front for a while. Dull afternoon and evening did some reading not good for my eyes.



And on this day all those years ago -
Saturday 29 March.1980  Little shopping.  Deb a.g. Tesco pm.  very dull day and still strong wind. Telephone connections April 10th.
Wednesday 29 1978 cold still windy very
Tuesday 29 1977, did not go out cold.
Monday 29 1976 Head pain troubling some time
Sat 29 1975 Sunny all day but very cold. Y J and Jennie at Lyme Regis (was that because of my mum's interest in the French Lieutenant's Woman)  Len not well.
Thursday 28 March 1968 Y and Jennifer came.
Thursday 29 March 1968.  Still nothing from Babs or A ring Win? Wrote J.G.


I of course know who many of these people are so find these bare entries quite poignant.  I once thought of being a meteorologist - and my gran definitely seemed obsessed by the weather.