Dame Akehurst a-washing for me all day… … I dined on part of a loin of mutton roasted in the oven and green salad. Paid Dame Akehurst 18d for 2 days work.
In the evening Joseph Fuller and myself played a game of cricket with Mr. George Bannister and James Fuller for half a crown’s worth of punch which we won very easy. But in being hot, and drinking a pretty – deal of punch, it got into my head; so I came home not sober.
In the forenoon my brother came over, but did not stay any longer than just while I rode upon his horse to Mrs Browne’s and back again.
I must lament my irregular life. Nothing settled, but all confusion. No worthy and valuable friend to trust the management of my affairs to; neither do I hardly know whether I have any such thing as a real friend in the world. I once had such a thing.