The Henson Journals
Mon 31 March 1913
Volume 18, Page 316
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Monday, March 31st, 1913.
A glorious day. The rooks delirious with domestic fervours. I attended Mattins in the Cathedral, and then spent the rest of the morning in shewing Violet over the Church and Castle. Both are amazingly impressive.
In the afternoon we attended the sports at the Grammar School, & Ella gave away the prizes. Then we went for a motor–drive in Violet's car through a country ravaged by collieries.
There is a sleepiness in the air of Durham which is not favourable to alertness of mind or activity of body. An elderly parson told me that when he came to the city 26 years ago, the first effect of the air was to induce abnormal sleepiness, the next chronic sleeplessness! This is an ill–omened statement!