June 21st/22nd 1975

● “Did nothing all day xcept get up late. Went round Nigs in evening”
●”Did nothing all day”

Seems like I started my “do nothing all day” habit as long ago as 1975?

Seriously though, what 17 year-old kid in the seventies would have “nothing to do”?

Nowadays I can excuse a “do nothing day” on middle-aged tiredness or sheer bloody-minded belligerence, but at 17 surely the world was my proverbial oyster?

I feel retrospectively resentful of what I didn’t do this weekend 35 years ago.

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