As I was putting the 1973 away in its safety deposit box at the bank* (one day, when this blog goes into stratosphere mode *cough* it could be worth millions?!) I discovered this page which I had not mentioned at the start of the year
It shows my exam results for June 1973. Results which strangely suggest [...]
It would appear that for several weeks into the start of 1973 I documented the amount of money I spent every day….
It reads like a millionaire….. OK, it doesn’t….
Jan 1 : 10p
Jan 2 : 7p
Jan 3 : 29½p (yes, in 1973, there were still halfpennies!)
Jan 4 : 10p
Jan 5 : 0p
Jan 6 : 14p
Jan 7 [...]
On the personal notes page, I have written my height as 5ft 2ins.
Proving I was still growing upwards.
I have written my weight as 7st 0lbs (98 lbs)
Proving I have continued to grow outwards.
I won’t go into too much concerning this pair of pages towards the back of the diary – for fear of potentially undermining future entries about the music I nabbed in 1973 – suffice to say my anal retentiveness with regards to documenting the record label and/or catalogue number of each item would serve me very well [...]
How very very SAD was I that I went through this informative article on “Taking Your First Photographs” and circled every mention of the word (band name) “Focus”
At the end of the article I wrote “Focus was written 16 times on the last 4 pages – now then, there’s not a lot of people who [...]
Page 3:
Vicar’s Dog Collar? Check
Flat hat with bobble? Check
Fly Sunglasses (years before Bono)? Check
Top hat and Magicians Wand? Check
Double-breasted jacket with padded shoulders (and it’s not even the 80’s)? Check
Bastardized Frank Sinatra lyrics? Check?
Thong sandals? Check
Woaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! THONG SANDALS?
Page 4:
Appears to be a buck-toothed jockey wearing a scarf and platform shoes, accompanied by a dog with [...]
This shows how hard I worked as a 15-year-old schoolkid!
Here’s my school timetable, at least (presumably) for January – July 1973. (The diary makes no reference to a timetable from Sept 1973 onwards… maybe it was the same schedule?)
I had Economics (as in ‘world financials’, not ‘home economics’ and all that cookery nonsense) to kick [...]
As you can see, the 1973 diary is somewhat high on the “beaten up” scale, but isn’t doing too bad for a 35+ year old document.
I was encouraged to discover that Letts still make diaries, including “school/student” versions, although they look wildly different from my pvc-sleeved affair. I wonder if Letts still manufacture their diaries domestically? My1973 one has [...]
