Very mild & warm day. The allies have answered Germany’s not & proposals of Peace by a definite refusal & so on goes the war.

Daily fresh rules are drawn by the Gov. as to how we are to live. No more white flour, one meatless day in the week, which latter we have had for some time.

Tim Betts came here to day. He is to stay & play with Nicholas. The latter is certainly improved by school discipline & learning obedience, but he is still sadly untruthful.

On Sat I walked to Hurlditch & heard Arminel’s experiences as under carter on a huge farm in Hampshire, she had a team of 4 horses to look after & had a very hard time of it. But she says she enjoyed it all. I must say that from her description it was anything but an enviable existence.