Still, overcast, rather chilly. Did nothing out of doors. New cwt. Full-o-Pep begun today. Clarke’s say the grain-shortage, such as there is, is of maize & dari (wheatings)[1]. The former comes from the Argentine. The latter was usually imported ready ground, & at present the English mills are not turning it out fast enough, though there is no shortage of wheat.
8 eggs.
[1] Dari, or durra, is Indian millet. ‘Wheatings’ is a proprietary name for the residue of milled wheat. OED, Revised edition, 1991, dates it from 1931. Peter Davison
Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 
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Yep. Still using Full-O-Pep.
from Inside the Whale
Meanwhile, elsewhere on this Tuesday:
In Britain… The brand-new British cruiser, Belfast, is seriously damaged by a German magnetic mine in the Firth of Forth. The destroyer Gypsy is sunk by a magnetic mine. The Japanese passenger liner Terukuni Maru is struck by a German mine as well, in the Thames estuary.
In London… Prime Minister Chamberlain announces that German merchant shipping will be seized in retaliation for indiscriminate mine warfare. All goods in Britain, earmarked for shipment to Germany, are confiscated.
In the North Atlantic… The German battle cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst begin a sortie.