Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 114]
We've just had the T.T. Motor-cycle races held here. A very great event, I can assure you... We at "Summer Hill" did not go to witness, but we could quite distinctly hear every cycle as it passed along the "Sulby" road. There were two days of racing. Light weight cycles one day, and heavy weights the second day. Of the heavy weights it was a "Sunbeam" that won - I just can't remember what won of the "Light" weights....
All motor-week Douglas held carnival - real carnival, no make shift... the fancy dress parades in the open, the flower battles, confetti throwing, all were included.... And the decorative scene of the electric lighting of the Douglas promenade is, truly, wonderously beautiful to behold.... Oh, we're having high jinks these summer days...
Nor are our incidents of remark yet concluded.... About the middle of next month their Majesties are to visit us... and George and Mary are to spend their whole days a-touring of this ancient and historic old "Manxland".
We all of us are keeping A1 at present... We are enjoying some delightfully pleasant weather, too, and that helps to make us all more or less fit. I thinks.
The world of Jurly is a blaze of woodbine and hedge-rise just at the moment - the Hawthorne is all over and away... and the Queen of the meadows is just awaking from his winter's beauty sleep. Oh! its