About tennish it was still vaguely light, and Jupiter and especially Venus were burning brilliantly in the western sky.

Lovely summer-night smell.

Lovely Spring weather: sun, fluffy clouds etc but a bit cold.

In the evening put an embargo on revision and walked down the valley. That lovely May evening light is in full flow. In the park to the north I looked out west over the ranked receding countryside. The light was coming in under the branches and clothing the slope down to the river in golden haze. Looking back, the horse-chestnuts were in bloom and utterly beautiful in the light against the deep blue sky. It's worth having lived through all that trouble to see that kind of thing.

Later saw the New Moon, Venus and the Sun in the sky all together.

I saw an interesting thing as the sun set: it was split up into sparks by tree branches and the last one (the highest) suddenly turned deep red, then green and finally vivid dark blue. Beautiful and very impressive. I've never seen it before.

Start of the finals. Put on my special-occasion paisley shirt for luck and went for a walk round the Broad first. Hot, sunny, humid.

Beautiful Spring weather all day - hot, sunny, big white clouds, blue sky, more or less flat calm. Lovely.

Beautiful evening.