A lively and merry day in school. Whenever there is a dull moment, I look through the wood of study to the pleasant vale of stamps and reading awaiting me behind, and the vale is all the more pleasant and alluring because it is seldom I can reach it. – Got measured for my new trousers. Couldn’t get Leaving Cert Hons. programme again to-day, so I will have to remain uncertain about piano for a few more days. Got puncture in bike settled. Have rotten luck with it lately. I am always getting punctures.