Was at my stamps for most of the morning. Then tried to finish my composition for Mammie to-morrow, but had to give it up as a bad job. When I stick at a thing too long my brains run dry. Mammie was at the Doctor the other day, and he said he could not understand my case at all. If I cannot get rid of it by the summer, I shall have to go to a specialist in Germany. Meanwhile I am to eat only what I like. Pretty fine that, as our Yank in school, Mickie ‘Marn’ would say. Mammie had a fierce tooth out yesterday by Mr. Scher. ((Dr Isaac Scher, whose father came to Cork from Lithuania after the pogrom of Jews there in the 1880s. Dr Scher`s son Eric was to become a friend of Fleischmann´s – and also his dentist.)) He is a wonderful dentist, and she felt scarcely any pain. Dr. Hackett, our former dentist, botched her teeth miserably. Got all ‘Lands and Peoples’ today. They’re great! Went to Delaney’s Civic Guard Band in Palace. Programme very poor, and instruments rather sharp. A well-trained band but not a patch on Brase’s. Great ‘climbum’ in paper. Not very crowded nor enthusiastic.
