Fine & warm. Finished thatching hay, as well as it can be done, which is not very well. However this is practice for another occasion when there is more hay. Stack is about 8’ x 6’ by 5’ at highest point. Hoed out cabbages & turnips, both doing well.
11 eggs (1 small). Sold 35 @ 2/6 score (4/3 – ought to have been 4/4½).
[NOTE] Probably about the 26 July Orwell wrote to the Scientific Poultry Breeders’ Association about the Food Purchase Scheme it ran for members. His letter has not survived, but one from S. R. Harvey, General Manager and Secretary of S.P.B.A. Supplies, Ltd. dated 28 July, gives details of discounts allowed on poultry feedstuffs, and also encloses details of association membership. Peter Davison
Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 
Okay, I admit I’m baffled by this: “Sold 35 @ 2/6 score (4/3 – ought to have been 4/41/2).” If it’s money, I have no clue how a 41 got in there!
GO is saying he should have received four shillings and four and a half pence, but only got four shillings and three pence.
All this counting of ha’pences sounds like Gordon Comstock wonder whether he can afford another packet of fags.
Max
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Probably it means 4s 4 1/2d.
Ah! Not 41/2 but 4 and 1/2. I didn’t think about half-pennies. Thanks!