An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

AUTOBIOGRAPHV 187 Government is injuring the nation is shown by the fact that distrust is so great that there is just now literally no market for house property. The result will be absolute ruin to the small house property owner, especially if he is unlucky enough to have bought subject to a mortgage. The; Buxton pageant next day was rather good, and I was unconsciously snap-shotted on my machine, the result being an excellent likeness. Professor Voeleker came down for a day or two but returned from Worstead on the Sunday. On the 6th July, I had the longest ride I had had for a long while, about 30 miles through Aylsham and Bacons– thorpe to Holt, then railed to Attlebridge, and called at Norgate's and so home by bad field roads by Swannington to Felthorpe. Then the Norwich Archreological Society's Excursion this year was by Elmham, Harleston (Swan). I had break– fast with R.J.W.P. at Thorpe Station, and supper at the same place on our way back, a very hot, tiring day. On the 16th I managed to get 24 on for 88, the best I had done this year ! On the 18th July, my eldest daughter, tired of home life, took up a berth at Constantinople, and the same day I reached 26 hits for roo. The 21st July is said to have been the hottest day felt in Norwich for 30 years; it certainly was hot enough to spoil our dinner which went putrid. On the 25th I shot a little, but only a very little, better than the Yarrow meeting, getting 92 for the round only. I slept at R.J.W.P's, the next morning he drove Daniels and me in a wagonette through Holt and Beeston Priory, to Cley, where we lunched. All the end of July it kept extremely hot. On the 4th of August, I motored with Clarke, Halls, and their wives round Swanton Fen, where they botanized, and so on to Wroxham. The Billingford meeting on the 8th August was chiefly noticeable for a plague of wasps. I cycled over to Elmham in the morning and breakfasted at the old public house, and after the meeting I rather astonished G.J. by bustling him up as far as Fouls~am on his bike, riding back in all 25 miles. Wednesday, 9th, was reported in the papers as being the hottest day for a century. R.H. was over, and this hot weather ceased on the 19th with a very welcome rain storm.