RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30121, 3 May 1963, Page 17

RANDOM REMINDER

DEAR DIARY

It is not easy to understand how the poor people, who can not afford office diaries, struggle along through life. We ourselves spent years in the outer gloom, until at Christmas we were presented with a diary by a dipsomaniacal uncle and since then we have come to realise just how important a volume it is. how valuable in the struggle for survival. As we sit in. bed this morning, making these notes, we are aware that this is the one hundred and twenty-third day of the year—information denied the hurrying, ignorant masses without diaries. We know that

the sun will rise at 7.01 a.m. and will set, all being well, at 5.26 p.m. It seems a bit early, but the diary is almost certain to be right. If we look out of our office window this afternoon at 3.14 p.m., we may see the moon rise. This phenomenon will be ignored by most folk. And if we play scrabble again tonight and are once more left with the X and the Z at the end, we may see the moon go down at 1.20 ajn.

But the diary’s chief function is in helping to plan one’s day ahead. We can see that if we should want to go to Waiau by rail today, it will involve a journey of 82 miles. We might write an air-

mail letter to Brazil during the afternoon. It seems awfully cheap, at 2s 3d a half ounce. We have just taken a further note not to let our Post Office Savings Bank account get beyond £ 10,000. The sharks won’t give you interest above that figure. It really feels fine, to be in possession of the facts. Did you know that it is only three weeks and a day before the beginning of the year 1383 in the Mohammedan Era? You didn’t? See what we mean? What a wonderful world it is, with a diary. Might ring Hong Kong today. Only £3. Ho hum. Better get up now. Want to check on that sunrise figure.