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That's when I thought of making a whole-day trip to Panjim to buy the spares, visit fish shops and also make a few purchases for Ashok. The next day, I accompanied my mum to Panjim where she showed me a few essential places and then left me on my own. I was a bit nervous but was determined to manage somehow. I first went to the Kamat restaurant to eat as I was hungry.
It was Lavender who at last succeeded in hitting the popular taste. "A picnic! A real whole-day one this time. Lunch in the woods at Earley, tea in our old woman's cottage, walk over the fields to the amphitheatre, and home by train from Oxholm. Whoever goes with Aunt Maria will be cheated of her holiday, for the well-behaved country doesn't count.
In this connection the following passage from Trollope's History of Christ's Hospital, 1834, is interesting: Those days, on which leave is given to be absent from the Hospital during the whole day, are called whole-day leaves.... A ticket is a small oval medal attached to the button-hole, without which, except on leaves, no boy is allowed to pass the gates.
Spectators have left it upon record how from all that interminable column of yellow-clad weary men, worn with half rations and whole-day marches, there came never one jeer, never one taunting or exultant word, as they tramped into the capital of their enemies.
But in a week, David, already a good horseman, had learnt to drive under the gardener's teaching, and then was able to take his delighted father out for whole-day trips to revel in the beauties of the scenery. They would have with them a wicker basket containing an ample lunch prepared by the generous hands of Bridget.
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