Frances reads some more from the 1909 Christmas Budget, one of the special holiday editions written annually by the ten siblings and their father, printed and bound by Bernard and read aloud in the drawing room in Longton Avenue, after tea, on Christmas Day.
Avice’s contribution was called - A Day in the Life of a Govvie at Portal, all about her work as a governess for the wealthy Brooks family at a grand house, called Portal, in the village of Tarporley in Cheshire.
Arthur wrote about the boys of Mount House School - Chips from my Blockheads.
There are anecdotes called - Do you remember? – as the siblings reminisce about their childhood, growing up in large vicarages in villages in England in the late 1800s.
There is a piece about hockey, written by Vera, called The Joys of Hockey.
And Enid wrote a fiendishly difficult competition; a story that had blanks that needed filling in, and the blanks were the names of authors, their surnames telling the story. If filling in the blanks wasn’t hard enough, Enid says you were only allowed 20 minutes to complete her competition, without the help of any reference books.
0:00 Intro
03:10 A Day in Cockey's Life at Portal - by Avice
11:45 Chips from my blockheads - by Arthur
19:39 Do You Remember?
40:18 Notes on the reminiscences
56:08 The Joys of Hockey - by Vera
1:00:03 Story wanting Words - by Enid
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