Diary 1915, January 8th.
'Why do the days go so fast? It is the common daily remark that the week-ends knock against each other! I suppose we are all so fully occupied that that has something to do with the swift passing of the time. My day begins fairly regularly at 6.30, when I start by doing duty as family stoker! An interesting way of beginning the day at this dark season (black night till 7 a.m.) and to make the household fires is a very interesting way of beginning a cold, dark day. By 8 a.m. I am free to start painting. Should like (if I live) to do a book of drawings on our cathedrals at night. I have done them by day and have thought how wonderful, in their mystery, they show in the semi-darkness; the great west front of Lincoln, seeming to run right up into the stars! This kind of subject might be done or rather suggested in small drawings, which would be quite unsuitable for larger: for the darkness of tone of these make them impossible for pictures that are to be hung up. They would look like a mere black hole in the wall, and if they were glazed (as all water-colours are) you would mostly see only your own reflection in the glass! If done for a book, can be carried to the light and so can be understood and seen and enjoyed.'
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