Love in the Phoney War - January 1940

Today would have been my father's 93rd birthday.

Back in June I described how, as a young man of 20, he spent the month before the outbreak of WWII on a solo bicycle tour of France, Germany and Switzerland. Some people asked what happened next, so today and for the next couple of days I'll be posting selections from his 1940 diary. As far as I can gather, the months from September to December 1939 were spent working for the Quaker Committee for Refugees in London - but in January 1940 he set off in search of an education at Woodbrooke, the Quaker Education Centre in Birmingham.

( Little did he know what he would find... )