All They Didn't Know

Chapter 4

"I'll just have to survive."

I finish the page and I shut the book.

Wow. What...? Wow.

Why has Uncle Joseph given me this diary? What does it mean? And what on earth is this war?

She says "1780", and I assume that means the year - but then, bombs? Planes? In the SEVENTEEN EIGHTIES? It doesn't make any sense and it says, the British Isles, too. So what on earth is she talking about?

Suddenly I'm desperate to talk to Joseph. If he found this, if he's read it and knows about it, then maybe he'll be able to tell me what it means, how to make sense of it. But I have no way of finding him, talking to him at all. Dad might have a number, but there's no way I can ask him about Joseph; not after the way the two of them parted. I don't think there's anything I can do.

Well...

I don't know, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here. I've only just started reading the diary, and maybe if I carry on, I'll be able to work it out. Maybe 1780 is code for... Something, you know, in the war. In which war, in Britain, I've no idea.