Sept 11 Saturday

10 pp [pages] of Belisarius Ch [Chapter] IX; which is now at 143 typed pp [pages], practically half-way, in just over seven weeks.
Walk to Cranleigh & back: no trouble now.
Laura working hard on recommendations1: this time for a new ethic.
Alix & Harry returned. Alix gave me a bottle of German Kümmel2 and Laura an old Florentine glass necklace of 5-piece-crystal & flat-[RG] amethyst beads, not graded.
Very cold again.
Finished going over Ch [Chapter] 2 of Swiss Ghost with Laura.
In Cranleigh I saw Samson & Delilah this years' winning pair of bull-mastiffs: they come from Alfold. They were beaten at Crufts by a pair of toy[RG] Pomeranians3.
Birth of Jensine Jensen .

Editorial Notes

1for Part V, The World and Ourselves eds.
2a distilled, caraway-flavoured liqueur eds.
3dogs eds.