Diary: Went rowing, had a bath, lunch with Greenwood’s. So my older sister was around, keeping to herself in the sitting room in the Children’s apartment. Linda was at Central High with my older sister. I’d seen her around when she was 12 or 13. She was so cool and the only one of my sister’s friends I developed a crush on. She had long, black, straight hair like Morris’s younger sister, or Susan Stranks, the presenter on ITV’s kids TV show Magpie.
This is likely to have been a fancy Sunday lunch in the grand dining room. A formal affair of three courses and as many wines. All prepared in the Refectory Kitchen, brought upstairs, and served by staff brought in for the task.
Went rowing with my brother in the Canadian canoe.
Played with Tarot Cards
These were something my older sister had introduced me to. I didn’t believe in the Fortune-Telling value at all, but people found it fun to have their fortunes told.
Memorably she had made a pack cut from the colour supplement of the Observer. This had been at least four years earlier. We were doing an interpretation when Dad and Mum came into the playroom to make an announcement: they were separating. The last card I turned was The Tower foretelling catastrophic change, which of course it was: we cried, Dad decided he couldn’t stand it and left.
The Greenwood’s say how much they’d like Dad to stay with them in Leeds.
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