... one coat of paint. In the evening Fanny came to see us.
8th Tuesday - I went to Newport, sold my chickens for 3s.9d a couple. I then went
to Wootton Church and gave the headstone another coat of paint.
9th Wednesday - The annual R……… show was held at the Eight Bells Inn Carisbrooke
yesterday. Last Monday the 7th the Isle of Wight and South Hants cricket clubs played
a match on the Antelope ground Southampton, yesterday Mr. Henry Bedstone of
Brighstone was drowned while bathing at Appley near Ryde, he was 22 years of age,
and on the 3rd inst Mrs George Ball on Coppins Bridge departed this life aged 54 years.
