Much in here will be familiar to those who have thoroughly read Orwell's oeuvre. The war diaries begin in earnest detail on 28 May, with the Belgian capitulation and retreat of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk. Of course, he knew perfectly well that there was his concentration on the domestic is one indication that hostilities had not reached the point where one could think about little else. O n 27 March 1940 George Orwell, or Eric Blair if you prefer, found it was "still impossible to sow seeds", but applied wood-ash to his onion bed, noted that the tadpoles were almost fully formed and beginning to wriggle their tails, and sold 20 eggs for 2s 10d.
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