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Monday Dec 26th

Went a drive in the morning & also to the bazaar. Picked a lot of greenery & some flowers from the garden, cosmos, zinnias,
marigolds & some flowering bushes. Spent most of the afternoon arranging the table, two put together making one long one.
Yellow & gold paper on top of the table cloth, eight silver candle sticks with yellow & black shades, a big basket full of
flowers, mostly yellows slung by cords from the ceiling in the middle & 2 cut glass bowls on each side of it & all the silver. It
looked awfully nice. There were a dozen people. Went to tennis & tea at the Mission. Very cold & extremely dull, nasty tea
as usual. The party arrived at 7.45. The menus were a great success & nobody took offence though they were decidedly
personal. It was a good idea doing them with the heads off photographs. The dinner was quite good but very plain. Hors
d'oeuvres, soup, fish rolls, roast chicken, plum puddings & mince pies, kidneys on toast, fruit, sweets, etc. no champagne, its so
expensive & rather a waste. After dinner we danced in the hall, the cement floor, with powder on it, makes a very good
dancing floor. They left early, soon after eleven. A very successful party, went with a swing. We had four boys waiting at
table.

Tuesday 27th Dec.