Diary for a Day: 23rd April 2011

By Chudleigh Writers

The residents of Chudleigh, a small town in Devon, kept a diary for 23rd April 2011, which was both St George's Day and Easter Saturday.

The diaries were displayed as part of the Chudleigh Literary Festival on 18th July 2011.

They are now brought together in book form as input to the social history of Chudleigh.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chudleigh Writers
• Release date: May 27, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476064703

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Diary for a Day: 23 April 2011

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Chudleigh Residents

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Copyright ©: Chudleigh Writers' Circle 2012

Cover illustration by Colin Avery

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table of contents

Introduction (Maryon Avery)

Roger Brandon

Margaret Mason

Michael Clarke

Des Shears

Twiggy

Anne_Chinneck

Maryon Avery

Elizabeth Ducie

Karen Sommerscales

Wendy Hardy

Marion Thomas

INTRODUCTION

Maryon Avery

As part of the Chudfest LITERARY FESTIVAL on 13 July 2011

Chudleigh residents were asked to keep a diary for just one day –

St George’s Day, Saturday 23 April*

As you read the various diaries you will learn that the dawn chorus must have been particularly loud that day and that the weather was unseasonably warm and sunny. There were picnics, barbecues, a visit to Exmouth beach, sunbathing, cycling and driving through the lanes, and hours in gardens either eating, playing or just sitting.

With a Bank Holiday coming up, there was shopping to be done and this led on to confessions of unhealthy quantities of chocolate being consumed. Eating was clearly an important item on the agenda with meals described ranging from a dog’s dinner to finishing up the left-over hot cross buns to lunches in the garden to planning the next day’s roast lamb followed by chocolate roulade.

Visits to and from friends and families stimulated much reminiscing