Saturday Jan. 1st. 1921

Thawing and about 5 p.m. raining. Busy taking quotations for {dinner?} also getting decorations ready for table, etc. Went down for the Mail in the Morning and also for Mail after dinner in afternoon. For 5.30 dinner: - Mother (arrived by bus about 3.40 p.m. and went home in bus after late train about 9.45 p.m.) Charlie, Alice, Duncan, Alice Jean, (Margaret in Toronto) Keith, Isabel, Frances, Jack, Douglas Nickle, Dorothy, Charles and Myself. Duncan, Charles, Charlie & Alice played 500, Frances & Keith - rummy. Alice played the piano & crocheted. Isabel and I played Halma. Dorothy and Douglas chess and Charles, John tumbeline.

Sunday Jan. 2nd.

Sidewalks a mass of ice. As I had such a bad cold I did not go to church either Morning or evening but went to S.S. Charles, Dorothy & Douglas went to church in

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