Toby begins his diary after his father remarries and the family move to their farm, “Cnochfierna”.  When not busy with farm chores, he visits his cousins at “Riverbank Cottage” in Port Dover.  His diaries are complimented by other diarists in the Barrett Family Diary Collection.  This includes copies of the originals and an adapted version of Toby’s 1911-20 diaries entitled “Short and Simple Annals” which he lovingly illustrates and gives to his father as a gift in the early 1930s.  What a close-knit, creative family.