‘Keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.’
Whoever said it - Mae West used the line in a film in 1937, but both Margot Asquith and Lillie Langtry were reported as saying it in the 1920s - was bang on the money. I started keeping a diary in 1959 (when I was eleven) and I have been profitably mining it almost ever since.
It's because I Keep a diary that I can tell you that I first met Queen Elizabeth II on the evening of Thursday
