This is probably the last picture taken of my father (third from left). He is picking the names of children from a bag: the lucky ones got to go on a foreign trip – to Yugoslavia, I think. If he had survived we might have gone too.

Yesterday and today have been a bit more spring-like .  Tonight I play in the last chess match of the season at Wymondham. Yesterday Dot and I went to the Archant agm, principally for the buffet. Very few familiar faces there. In the evening we had a meal at the Trafalgar Restaurant in the Nelson hotel (Times tokens). Not bad. Excellent wine and service.