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[Newsletter article inserted here]

events have been taking place. These historic
occasions the public records will take care of.
The things which should be recorded in a private
journal are the intimate happenings from
day to day, illustrative of our manner of life
and general well being. Since I last
wrote – Priorwood has been sold to the
Youth Hostels Association for £3500. and
they have sold off the gardens to a market
gardener. My scheme to acquire & present an
an acre or so to the Ministry of Works for inclusion
in the Abbey grounds came to nought.
When the war came to an end in 1945
everyone thought that, in due course, we
would return to more normal lives and
escape from the austerities of the war period.
Alas! Owing to impoverishment, through
having to bear for so long on our shoulders
the main burden of the war; to lack of ships
from destruction by our enemies; to general
impoverishment of allied and enemy
peoples in Europe, and to our own shortage
of man power etc. matters have not turned out
as we expected and today our rations are
more meagre and altogether living is more
difficult than it was two years ago. Practically all
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