| Description | Particular details concern Charlotte's parish work, which Mary is also increasingly involved with. In addition to the usual teaching at school, giving out of stores, choir practice and parish visiting, she helps Fred with his sermons:on 7 May she writes 'read a great deal of theology hoping to be useful'. She arranges a choir feast on 17 April and attends the school inspection on 19 June along with Fred and Mary. 'Mabel Phelan won the B[isho]p's prize & W. Wakelin the Rector's prize for those not in the day school'. On 30 December she holds a 'hot roast beef & plum pudding supper' for the choir.
Charlotte reports some minor health problems. She has dental treatment on 12 February and suffers from eczema on her face, noted on 23 May. Harold comes home ill on 31 May, and the doctor visits on 3 June to examine the abcess which Charlotte has treated with a poultice. He diagnoses a swollen gland, and advises that Harold will not be able to work for 3 or 4 weeks. Harold at this time is a pupil to W. C. Campbell in Bretby village, having started there on 20 January.
Leisure activities engaged in by the family include a trip made by Mary and Sidney to see 'The White Poodle' at Shiplake on 8 January and Charlotte's visit to the Tudor Exhibition while in London on 12 February. Cecil and Sidney have their first game of lawn tennis on 12 April and Charlotte helps Fred to arrange the garden on 16 May. She goes with Fred and Mary to May Makin's wedding at Rotherfield Court which involves 'an unusual breakfast in a tent' on 23 July and the family also attend Fawley Court party for cricket and games on 2 August. They holiday in Brighton in August and are joined by Cecil for weekends. As well as going to the beach, there are also walks to Hove, a visit to the fruit and flower market, and to the Cafe Royal on 21 August. Harold and Mary go to the meet of the stag hounds in Henley on 2 December.
Reading matter includes: 'Ecclesia Anglicana', 'Cutt's Church History', 'Wilderness Way', 'Revelation of the Risen Lord', Liddon's 'Power of the Resurrection', 'Difficulties of Faith and Disbelief', 'The Transformation of Hope' and 'Why Am I a Churchman?'
There is a loose item at back of volume: leaflet advertising 'Hazell's Annual for 1890' |