Diary 13.6.1883

Wednesday June 13

Fine morning but turned out very showery, we have plenty of hail stones here. We get corned beef today, it is the best dinner we have had all the week although we have nothing with it but bread and tea if we can get it out of the cook. Emmeline is a year and ten months old today the 13th, she will soon be two years now. Lat. 44.8S Long. 114.13E. 153 miles.

Diary 12.6.1883

Tuesday June 12

In bed when the porridge came, it is my day to wash but I got such a cold the last time I have done a few every morning when we have done washing ourselves. I only wash Emmeline’s pinafores and pocket handkerchiefs. There has been a lot of the men showing the Doctor the meat is not good with being kept so long. He says he cannot help it so must have that or nothing, it will be a blessing when we are at the journey’s end. Today’s log Lat. 43.10S Long. 111.4E 96. Cape Chatham Australia distance 549.

Diary 11.6.1883

Monday June 11

Very stormy morning, we do not get much sleep with Emmeline being so bad with the diarrhoea we are up five or six times in a night with her, I shall be glad when we are off with her, there is so much boiled beef and mutton it throws us all out with our bowels, but we must either eat it or nothing. 186 miles today.

The Airport novel

The criteria for an Airport novel is simple. They must be fast paced, easy to read, relatively engaging, and not involve too much complex thought.
The reader should be able to maintain an interest in the book even while standing in lines, waiting for baggage, and waiting for delayed flights. The Airport novel should also be able to last the distance - the read needs to take longer than a couple of hours. These books are pulpy, easy to carry, and easy to discard after finishing them. Chances are, most of the books in the newsagent at your airport will fit into this category
The Airport novel genre is fairly unique in that it is not defined by solely by its content. This genre contains novels that are suitable to be read while travelling, and fit into a certain criteria, it will most likely also fall into at least one of the following genres: Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime fiction, Legal thriller, and Historical romance.
The genre of Airport novel is fairly derogatory. It infers that the book is of little more value than making a boring travel experience mildly less boring, and offers nothing thought provoking or philosophical. It's like the junkfood of literature, if you will.
Top 10 most popular Airport novels
1. The Firm by John Grisham
2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
3. A Time To Kill by John Grisham
4. Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
5. Map Of Bones by James Rollins
6. Mary Mary by James Patterson
7. N or M? by Agatha Christie
8. A Thin Dark Line by Tami Hoag
9. Dust To Dust by Tami Hoag
10. Trouble by Jesse Kellerman
from http://www.illiterarty.com/genre-airport-novel

Diary 10.6.1883

Sunday June 10

A very bitter cold morning, no service again today nothing so that you would know Sunday by, only the more respectable of the passengers are a little tidy up we do not forget it’s Sunday for we feel so much out of place having no Chapel or school to attend, nothing to do but to lounge about on deck or sit below, but we rejoice to know that God our maker is not the God of the land only, but the Lord of the seas also, and we can lift up our hearts to Him in prayer from this ship on the high sea and He will hear. Distance today 170 miles.

Diary 9.6.1883

Saturday June 9

A very mild morning, the sun is shining. Very pleasant on deck, if we had been in sight of land we fancied ourself at Blackpool or Skegness. The log today Lat. 43.50S Long. 100.51E distance 226 miles.

Diary 8.6.1883

Friday June 8

The sea is still very rough and the wind astern which makes the ship roll very much and that is not very pleasant, we cannot sit nor lay still in bed without we lay on our backs and when we are eating we have to hold our plates all the time. Lat. 48.13 Long 95.43 distance 249 miles.

Diary 7.6.1883

Thursday June 7

Another wet morning the sea washing over the deck all day, a very heavy sea all day obliged to stay below most of the time. Ruth Emmeline has not been so well today she had the diarrhoea all night, we think it is her teeth. Lat. 40.44S Long. 90.12E distance 235 miles.

Diary 6.6.1883

Wednesday June 6

A fine morning but still very cold and wet, it began to hail in the afternoon. We thought we had plenty of cold weather in England but it is nothing to compare with what we have now, the hail stones are as large as nuts.
Emily Ann has had the backdoor trots with the pills and port wine, she only took three doses of it and then sent it back to the Doctor, then he gave her arrowroot and I had to begin making gruel thrice a day. Lat.43.22 Long. 85.5E distance 263 miles.