Monday 17th September.

85 days to go.

Work to be commenced properly this week. Tweety and I get our briefing from Duke and Nemo. What each of us will be doing and how things will work. Tweety is given a full Commercial role and I will be the Jack of all trades. I think this will suit me better as I will be able to go all over the place and not get myself bored. At least it will stop me thinking of things to do for entertainment.

Had a big breakfast this morning, then had a big lunch too. I start to get involved in some local stuff and start to design a couple of amendments to processes.

As it is a quiet day, let me give an anecdotal info session on Guadalcanal. It was here in late 1942 (August), that the Japanese push into the Pacific was halted. They were building an airfield on the Island to enable attacks to be made on the Eastern cities of Australia. When this was discovered the Americans decided that this was a good place to launch the counter attack to push the Japanese out of the Pacific. They allowed a time to pass to let the construction of the airfield move towards completion. They then began the invasion of the Island.

(If you want this in detail, Google it). The Japanese decided to defend the Solomons, they sent reinforcements down and the resultant battle was the heaviest defeat of the US Navy in WW2. Fighting continued and the US then had a victory of its own, catching a supply fleet unaware and inflicting major damage. Although the US lost more vessels, the Japanese losses were more devastating because they were supplies and troopships. The majority of the fighting ended here in early 1942.

Work completed, head to the prison and potter about. I decided not to eat tonight, as I was still ok after my big lunch. Arrange to meet Tweety for breakfast in his room. We were given a supply box containing a 1 ring electric cooker, a toaster, and various pieces of equipment. We purchased some stores and will have breakfast in his room.