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    My dreary diary

    Mar 09, 2022 3 minutes

    I included very few world events in the diaries I kept as a not-quite-adolescent in the early 1970s.

    There was one, though, on 9th November 1970. The next day, I wrote, ‘Play rehearsal. Quite good. Home at about 6 o’clock. President de Gaulle died and a programme about Houdini was postponed. Gillingham won away 1-0. Watson scored.’

    I kept a diary throughout 1970, 1971 and 1972 – an entry every single

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