Welp, I spent all day yesterday trying to get the entries in Christie's Diary organized. Keep in mind that it's a huge ledger book, not a diary. There are only a few places, though, where they (either Grandma or Grandpa) recorded some business transactions.
Most of the pages were blank. But then, sporadically, Grandma decided to use it as a diary. She made some entries in 1959, and then no more until 1964. Then again, briefly, in 1968. And then 1970, 1977, and 1978.
As if that's not random enough, once I got all the dates verified, their distribution through the book is kind of nuts. The 1959 entries are on page 196 and 195 (in that order). The 1964 entries are on pages 190, 189, 188, 193, 187, and 184. On these, she helpfully (?) wrote the numbers 1,2,3,4,5, at the tops of the pages. Then in the middle of one page she wrote "over to page 4 - then back to this page / should have been here".
At the top of that page there is an entry that seems to start in mid-sentence, and I couldn't find a previous entry leading up to it.
There is one page with entries from 1964 and 1977 on the same page.
The 1968 diary entries are on page 13.
The 1970 entries are on page 15,
1977 on page 22, also page 184
1978 on page 14
Now you see why it took me all day.
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