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[27'^ October 1955] 
28th (Friday) 
[October 1955] 
sea and get into a comfortable hotel. 
A real day off. The morning 
we simply sat on the front, reading 
in the sun. After lunch we 
returned to the writing-room at the 
hotel where I am writing this. But 
a rude awakening was near. When I went 
to check on the car I found, that, owing 
to a long weekend, the train was not on its 
usual schedule and the car would not be 
available before the morning! So after a 
consultation with Joan we decided she would 
stay on another night and come on in 
the morning and I would catch the 
5.0 pm train. What I could have said 
about the fool at Zeehan! I took the 
train and arrived at Devonport at 6.30, 
had a meal at the hotel and spent an 
extremely pleasant evening with Mac and 
Mrs Mac, during which an undue amount 
of whisky was drunk - no birds except 
SILVER GULLS nesting on three islands, close 
offshore, which I noticed from the train. 
