10.5 Barmston

I’m broke at the moment so I’ll be glad when we get working, possibly at Sewerby, possibly at Barmston.

Had our first opportunity to speak Chaucer’s English today. I came out of it quite well, because of a type of sensitivity and sympathy I think I have for language that was very near the Anglo-Saxon. It seems much less Gallicised. Bruce was superb as usual. We are really thick in comparison to his vast intellectual powers. Poor Bruce, we do satirise him quite a lot!

Did little work in the evening.