Thoroughly enjoying these diaries, Seb. Adrian Mole has nothing on you. I'd like to read 'Five Easy Steps To Become Head Prefect'. Enjoyed the Brideshead Revisited poetry on the river scene too.
I had shorts like that only I bought them from that vintage ( we didn't use that word then) stall on Cambridge market about 18.months after this entry... This has redolence of punting to Grantchester and reading Brookes et al... Cambridge was clearly waiting for you!!
I spent 1984 channelling Sebastian Flyte in a striped blazer(me-made of course) and hand knitted cricket sweater. Bizarre from a comp girl... But there we are. Loving your 6th form memories.
Thanks so much Angie! Great to have you here and kind of reconnect through time. Remember, I was planning a concert in Southampton and we were going to meet up and then Covid happened, and everything changed.
Maybe you are right. I won't mention the wind-up gramaphone I had in my room and took out on a punt! Must go punting again. My dad is wanting to go some time and get me (still!!) to to the boat goes under, I go over, the bridge trick! And as for clothes, all I can remember is big baggy old down and out overcoats... Maybe we'll come on to the Cambridge chapter one day...
Oo, did you Angie? Well it was pre-ipod wasn't it, so, you know, everyone had their own sound system, some were just older than others. Not pretentious at all! ;-)
Wonderful, all of it. Full of hope and possibility. I've been writing about a particularly vivid summer in my teen years (but 10 years later than yours, in 1994) by making a zine about places that meant a lot to me that year, and it was wrenching, but a nice wrenching (?!) to write. These diaries of ours are like time machines, aren't they, zipping us back to the past.
Thanks so much Teresa. Your zines are actually really amazing. Was thinking to get one. 'Youtube ads I could do without' is a fab idea. Have you made the one about places yet?
Ah, thanks, Seb! The 'Places' zine is made, and I'm currently trialing something where I send it to folks who take out a paid subscription to my newsletter in July (there's info in the issue that went out this week) - but I'll also add it to my Etsy store at the start of August, so you can grab a copy then, if you like. The YouTube one is really popular! I loved making it. Love all zine-making actually, such a freeing way to create.
Thoroughly enjoying these diaries, Seb. Adrian Mole has nothing on you. I'd like to read 'Five Easy Steps To Become Head Prefect'. Enjoyed the Brideshead Revisited poetry on the river scene too.
It involves a helluva lot of cleaning, who knew?!
I had shorts like that only I bought them from that vintage ( we didn't use that word then) stall on Cambridge market about 18.months after this entry... This has redolence of punting to Grantchester and reading Brookes et al... Cambridge was clearly waiting for you!!
I spent 1984 channelling Sebastian Flyte in a striped blazer(me-made of course) and hand knitted cricket sweater. Bizarre from a comp girl... But there we are. Loving your 6th form memories.
Thanks so much Angie! Great to have you here and kind of reconnect through time. Remember, I was planning a concert in Southampton and we were going to meet up and then Covid happened, and everything changed.
Maybe you are right. I won't mention the wind-up gramaphone I had in my room and took out on a punt! Must go punting again. My dad is wanting to go some time and get me (still!!) to to the boat goes under, I go over, the bridge trick! And as for clothes, all I can remember is big baggy old down and out overcoats... Maybe we'll come on to the Cambridge chapter one day...
I had a wind up gramophone too... I think it had punt outings, definitely college lawns 🙄
Oo, did you Angie? Well it was pre-ipod wasn't it, so, you know, everyone had their own sound system, some were just older than others. Not pretentious at all! ;-)
You cannot be serious....???
Love All!
Took me a moment to work that out. Though that's apparently from 1981... x
Oh of course, duh!
Wonderful, all of it. Full of hope and possibility. I've been writing about a particularly vivid summer in my teen years (but 10 years later than yours, in 1994) by making a zine about places that meant a lot to me that year, and it was wrenching, but a nice wrenching (?!) to write. These diaries of ours are like time machines, aren't they, zipping us back to the past.
Thanks so much Teresa. Your zines are actually really amazing. Was thinking to get one. 'Youtube ads I could do without' is a fab idea. Have you made the one about places yet?
Ah, thanks, Seb! The 'Places' zine is made, and I'm currently trialing something where I send it to folks who take out a paid subscription to my newsletter in July (there's info in the issue that went out this week) - but I'll also add it to my Etsy store at the start of August, so you can grab a copy then, if you like. The YouTube one is really popular! I loved making it. Love all zine-making actually, such a freeing way to create.