Wednesday, January 22nd

Not so hot; wind N.E. Began a long letter home and increased it to four pages, hoping to send it by Cressy on Saturday. The boys and men busy putting up the stable—sod walls nearly finished except the roof. Took tea early and walked with Mrs Fisher up the hill, as she said she wanted to walk to train herself gradually for getting up to the top in order to reach the Plains. I succeeded in cheating her actually to the top before she knew she was halfway. In the evening took tea with Mr Godley, Mr and Mrs FitzGerald, Tancred, Perceval, Wortley, & Wakefield, Hamilton & self. FitzGerald sang 'Molly Carew' very well. Idea of a Club at Christchurch started. Gartner, suggested by me as a good man to keep it, and I thought 'Gartner's' would be a taking name—like 'Boodle's'.