Diary of Grace Russ (Grace Enid Baglin) 1933-2006
Grace Russ, like her great-grandfather George Burgess, was a prolific writer. She also had a great sense of ‘British Humour’ and an imaginative mind; which is evident in many of her writings.
Below: Menu links to the full transcripts of letters to family and friends, written between 1977 and 1993:
Menu
Friends - who needs them? (8 March 1977) & Gone! (16 March 1977)
Move to Bristol (16th August 1977)
To The Auction (19 August 1977)
The Big Auction (23 August 1977)
The Intruder (23 August 1977)
Farewell Party (23 September 1977) & Grace’s (Tearful) Goodbye to Gillespies
No Fixed Abode (26 October 1978)
Guardian Angel (27 October 1978)
Rail Strike (29 January 1979)
Keep Your Distance (21 February 1979)
The Wedding (24 May 1979)
Office Life & Christy Minstrels at Lewisham (20 September 1979)
Grace’s guided Tour of London (20 September 1979)
Flat Hunting (20 September 1979)
Eye of a Needle (20 September 1979)
My Third Leg (21 September 1979)
My Pinky, Mauvy, Browny Blouse (21 September 1979)
Doesn’t Time Fly! (Work & Social Life) (24th September 1979)
Sign Language, Alan Melville on Radio and,
Cat Cigarette Lighter (24th September 1979)
Cat-A-Strophic (18 November 1981)
Grace…. gone with the wind (Easter 1982)
Light’s Out – Watch Out (27 April 1982)
49 today (27 April 1982)
The Show Must Go On (2 May 1982)
Time Waits for no one (7 May 1982); Garden Front (9 May 1982);
Pottering Around (15 May 1982); Quiet Day at Home (16 May 1982)
The Slippery Surface (17 May 1982)
The Forgotten Photos (18 May 1982)
And they thought I was a District Nurse! (19 May 1982)
St. Marks Hospital. AGM (20 May 1982)
Civil Servants Social (23 May 1982)
The Old Bailey (23 July 1982)
Anna Dawson & the Sponsored Slim (26 April 1983)
It All Adds Up? (1 June 1983)
The Long Journey (31 March 1984) & The Non Journey (2 April 1984)
The Adventurous Journey (24 April 1984)
Toe in the Vacuum (12 September 1985) & Toe it to Guy’s (16 September 1985)
A Weak Week! (28 November 1985)
Family Research (11th December 1985)
Acquisitions of Chinchillas, New Employment (Job Security) and
Gentleman from Grimsby (29th Jan 1986)Lifts Out Of Action, No Hot Water, Sun Glasses in Intensive Care (30th Jan 1986)
Financial Problems and Health Issues (15th August 1986)
My Passion for Fish & Chips (15th August 1986)
Chinchillas Create Havoc and Man Sniffing Legs in Café (15th August 1986)
Life with the Samaritans (September 1986)
Countess Dembinska (September 1986)
Crazy for Bananas! (21 July 1987)
From Dusk Till Dawn (25 August 1987)
Paid Holiday House Sitting (9th June 1988)
Double Blood Test (9th June 1988)
Mum to a Samaritan (9th June 1988)
Accidently in Bank Holiday Parade, Orpington (9th June 1988)
Coach Trip to Clacton with Friends, and Beryl’s Handbags (9th June 1988)
A Weighty Problem & The Christening (9th June 1988)
Tipsy Keys - Early Computer Technology; £5 Chain Letters;
Sticking Ballcock and Blocked Overflow; Disappearing Act (9th June 1988)
The Blackbirds Sing (June 1992)
Life with Mum (1993)