Hello, welcome to my blog

Mostly you will find, here, transcribed entries from the secret diary that I used to keep as a teenager between 1970 and 1975. I try to be honest with my transcriptions, but, just occasionally I do edit, to protect myself or others from embarrassment or some other emotion.
Also, though, I like to do a brief review of the books I have been reading, so these are interspersed throughout. I reserve the right to write blog entries, also, about other random things.
Why do I keep this blog? I don't know. I am an academic and one of my research interests is around how people construct their own identities. The diary transcriptions, and what I write about my books, are very much about revealing something of my identity.

Sunday, 6 February 2011

My secret diary 1972 February (i)

Oh dear. I think I may have warned you that my diary entries for Feb - early April 1972 get very sparse, and often non-existent.
Well, I have nothing to report for the first half of February except comments that I wrote in 1972 about things I had written in 1971. These had little arrows pointing to the 1971 entries.

Feb 14th
AT* Good grief!! Remember the old pennies and half-crowns? 10/- notes? Halfpennies? Threepenny bits!? The good ol' days. **
Feb 15th
NB Britain has now signed many contracts and things which sort of make her nearly in the Common Market. It's almost definite now. I'm glad, I think it will be good for England (in a defensive and trading point of view)***

Commentary
Feb 14 - *AT = after-thought
** this had an arrow pointing to a place in 1971 where I had carefully written out 2/6 = 12 1/2p, 1 shilling = 5p, 2 shilling = 10p.
Feb 15 - *** this had an arrow pointing to a 1971 entry that said 'D-Day ie Decmal Day. Big step for Britain towards Common Market.

More importantly, because there is a gap in my diary entries, and as compensation, I am including here a photograph and transcription of the very first page of the dairy, on which I recorded some of my favourite music, over the years I kept the diary.

Good records
Lee Marvin - Wandrin' Star
Rare Bird - Not enough love
Dave Clark 5 - Come on you people
From 'Hair' - Good morning starshine
- It's easy to be hard
- Aquarius
Melanie
Dahlia Lavi - Love's Song
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
England Football Team 1970 - Back Home
Don Fardon - The Belfast Boy (NB this was about George Best, who I loved)
Barrie McGuire - On a Painted Ocean & flip
The Planet Suite by Gustav Holst
Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Beethoven
+ a lot of others from everybody
Simon & Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel
The Beatles, Don McLean
Don McLean - Vincent - beautiful
The Mamas and the Papas
Bob Dylan
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