Trip to Heatherbank.
London. Weybridge
Aug. 3. Clear & dry in London. Three very
heavy showers with sharp lightning &
much hail at Weybridge.
  Took 10.15 A.M. from Waterloo to
Weybridge. Arriving was met at Station
by Scott Wilson & his father. Scotch folk,
the boy reserved, rather sly I fancied, the
father full of anecdote & shrewd humor.
We drove to their house and thence to
Mr. W's "experimental garden" at [blank space].
It proved most interesting - a collection of
beautiful plants from all over the world,
everything growing very naturally. Saw our
Epigea [sic] [Epigaea] and checkerberry both very flourishing.
Lunched at cottage on grounds. Martins &
paper wasps nests side by side under eaves.
No birds singing except Yellow Hammer & Green Finch
Saw a few Robins. Heavy shower with hail.
Two small frogs, Rana sylvatica I thought, in
the garden. Drove home in rain. Country
wooded heavily with bits of heath & heather
in bloom. Sandwich Id. birds. Back to
London by 9.20 train.
London
Aug 4. Cloudy with frequent heavy showers.
To Westminster Abbey with C. & E. in A.M.
Lunched at a hotel opposite. At 3 P.M.
to House of Commons. C. & E. put in the
Ladies' Gallery, I in the Strangers' Gallery.
Speeches by Mr. Buchanan, Sir George Campbell
& others on restriction of working hours in
Indian cotton factories; by several Conservatives
on a proposed railroad to Candahar.
Mr Balfour and Mr. Goschin on the 
Ministerial Bench. Stayed until 6 P.M.
Then returned to Trafalgar Square
and spent an hour walking about 
the streets visiting several shops
& getting my Kodak prints which
proved disappointing.