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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

... did you write a diary? Do you still have your diaries? If you do, do you have any excerpts you'd be happy to share with The Lounge?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not really life dairys but i wrote notebooks upon notebooks of recipes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No Jim I didn't but I did used to have a voice recorder which I would always talk to. Sadly it disappeared. I'd love to listen to what weird shit I used to talk about when I was a crazy child. It was probably about nine year old me humping action man.

Thank the lord I am very normal now.

Did you used to write a diary? I'd love a little snippet if you did!

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

I kept a diary from age 15 to 27. They were big diaries with about 7 lines for each day. Threw them out 5years ago and regretted it ever since.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You first Jim!

I only wrote in a diary on occasion, normally when I was feeling depressed and particularly self-involved, but if anyone ever read them I'd turn inside out with embarrassment! I can't read them on my own without cringing so if anyone else did.......

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"No Jim I didn't but I did used to have a voice recorder which I would always talk to. Sadly it disappeared. I'd love to listen to what weird shit I used to talk about when I was a crazy child. It was probably about nine year old me humping action man.

Thank the lord I am very normal now.

Did you used to write a diary? I'd love a little snippet if you did! "

You're so normal. Unfortunately I didn't keep a diary. I wish I did, but I didn't. That's kinda why I'm asking.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I kept a diary from age 15 to 27. They were big diaries with about 7 lines for each day. Threw them out 5years ago and regretted it ever since."

Oh no. I got excited for a second there. What a shame.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

I did. But it made me realise how uneventful my daily life was.

It’s alright if you’re Ranulph Fiennes, and every day is an adventure - but when you’re Sandra from Cardiff going to College every day by bus, before going home for tea, it’s not quite the same

. I could have made it sound like a Die Hard movie but meh it was only me reading it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"You first Jim!

I didn't write a diary. I was too busy being a boy that wouldn't contemplate keeping a diary.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thank the lord I am very normal now.

Did you used to write a diary? I'd love a little snippet if you did!

You're so normal. Unfortunately I didn't keep a diary. I wish I did, but I didn't. That's kinda why I'm asking."

If we could turn back time... we would find a way.

I wish I did too though. I think they would be so interesting to read and bring back so many forgotten moments. I'll definitely encourage my daughter to write a diary.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Not really life dairys but i wrote notebooks upon notebooks of recipes

Have you got any overnight oat recipes?

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

I shall unearth one of mine this afternoon.

Please bear in mind that

a) I went to an all girl's school

b) I was a precocious little twonk

c) I was even more insufferable and needy than I am now (yes, that is possible)

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK

I wrote a diary in 1994-95 but threw it away years ago. It mostly contained thoughts on how much I disliked PE, rugby league and my shyness at not asking out a girl I was friends at high school with. Standard Adrian Mole stuff I guess

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"I shall unearth one of mine this afternoon.

Please bear in mind that

a) I went to an all girl's school

b) I was a precocious little twonk

c) I was even more insufferable and needy than I am now (yes, that is possible)"

Are you reading them please ??

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I shall unearth one of mine this afternoon.

Please bear in mind that

a) I went to an all girl's school

b) I was a precocious little twonk

c) I was even more insufferable and needy than I am now (yes, that is possible)"

I knew I could rely on you. I'm looking forward to this afternoon.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thank the lord I am very normal now.

Did you used to write a diary? I'd love a little snippet if you did!

You're so normal. Unfortunately I didn't keep a diary. I wish I did, but I didn't. That's kinda why I'm asking.

If we could turn back time... we would find a way.

I wish I did too though. I think they would be so interesting to read and bring back so many forgotten moments. I'll definitely encourage my daughter to write a diary. "

Definitely encourage your daughter.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just pulled mine from under tge stairs.

I have my 1996 Diary.

I was 15.

May 2nd:

"Met Stella over the Hilly fields on lunch i really love her when we kiss. I put her picture in my wallet and she said it was really romantic.

Nicole upset Mum and dad again. Shes staying at Robyns overnight.

Dads just studying his moths and hes angry about it.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"I shall unearth one of mine this afternoon.

Please bear in mind that

a) I went to an all girl's school

b) I was a precocious little twonk

c) I was even more insufferable and needy than I am now (yes, that is possible)

Are you reading them please ??

Ha! I might upload a video of me doing that but people will be very confused.

I think I'll take a photo of me with it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Just pulled mine from under tge stairs.

I have my 1996 Diary.

I was 15.

May 2nd:

"Met Stella over the Hilly fields on lunch i really love her when we kiss. I put her picture in my wallet and she said it was really romantic.

Nicole upset Mum and dad again. Shes staying at Robyns overnight.

Dads just studying his moths and hes angry about it.

I love that. Thank you very much for being the first to share.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"I shall unearth one of mine this afternoon.

Please bear in mind that

a) I went to an all girl's school

b) I was a precocious little twonk

c) I was even more insufferable and needy than I am now (yes, that is possible)

Are you reading them please ??

Ha! I might upload a video of me doing that but people will be very confused.

I think I'll take a photo of me with it."

Oooh video . If you do I will ready some candles and assume a meditative state so as too fully relax and let that mellow yet seductive voice wash over me

Innit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just pulled mine from under tge stairs.

I have my 1996 Diary.

I was 15.

May 2nd:

"Met Stella over the Hilly fields on lunch i really love her when we kiss. I put her picture in my wallet and she said it was really romantic.

Nicole upset Mum and dad again. Shes staying at Robyns overnight.

Dads just studying his moths and hes angry about it.

I love that. Thank you very much for being the first to share."

No problem.

I have 3 storage boxes full. Some of it is taken up by Pupil Planers and some school ties etc.

Having my loft converted so everything is downstairs.

I read a few and planned to read more of them just haven't gotten around to it

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Mrs kept detailed diaries 1995-1998 while we travelled

Mon 31st March 1996

Picked up Kevin and Jo and went on an adventure in Bertha(Hillman Avenger) to the beach and town of Whangamata. Bought toe rings and earrings, went to Kevs cousins who gave us loads of vveed and rolled us a couple. Went shopping for food but just bought loads of vodka and munchies, then a long slow drive up winding gravel roads to corramandel where we broke into kevs aunties house (we had permission) it’s a great farm house and we had it all to ourselves , we played presidents and assholes , skulling vodka and crashed quite early

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Will I ever get this Magic Flying Carpet to work?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didn't keep a diary but I did write alot of stories from around the age of nine to my late teens and now I wish I had kept them

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By *ultry SuccubusTV/TS
over a year ago

London

"... did you write a diary? "

No.

Tried to have one in my teens but noticed that I find it very difficult to write something honest or unbiased, so I stopped after 2-3 days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sunday January 11th

First after Epiphany

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

It is a pity there aren’t any more intellectuals living round here. Mr Lucas wears corduroy trousers, but he’s an insurance man. Just my luck.

The first what after Epiphany?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think I’ve shared a lot of what would have been diary excepts over years on here.

However I used a journal in a different way as it was a development journal that I used in relation to going through significant personal change and learning. I do keep those journals but they are archived in the loft. What I learned I wrote up in various forms.

The stuff I have learned frequently gets shared in here.

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

I came across mine from my youth when I was in my 20s, and after reading a few pages, I promptly burned them. My memories are a far better recount than the teen ramblings of immaturity.

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Yes I did, I burnt them in my late 20's. I read them all one final time, there were a few other things I burnt with them. It was an act of moving on and was cathartic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes I wrote a diary from early teenage years to about 25. I still have all of them but I'm not sharing from them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I no longer own them, they got destroyed. But I have my old calendar from a significant year..nothing to share as it would be lost in translation..

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

The closest I came to any diary of sorts was when I was in an abusive relationship.

It got to the point that I was writing things down or voice recording them as my own evidence. Part of the M.O of a narc is to twist things and deny things that happened or claim things that didn't. I used them to refer back to to see if I was as insane/forgetful as he would insist I was.

I'm so glad I did it

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By *asmartsCouple
over a year ago

sheffield

"I did. But it made me realise how uneventful my daily life was.

. I could have made it sound like a Die Hard movie but meh it was only me reading it."

Lol made me laugh as did your profile

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not a diary, but I used to lead imaginary lives in my head

Set up a person on paper and devise a life for them

I think I was a desperately sad and lonely teen

Thankfully, it didn't follow me into adulthood

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By *osco78Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

I did from 17 to 24

Threw them away a few years back ,glad I did reminded me too much of the drinking nob I used to be

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Will I ever get this Magic Flying Carpet to work?"

I bloody hope so.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I was 17, I was given a diary. I found it a few years ago, clearing out my old room. I’d left it entirely blank bar the front page, where, under the date I’d written ‘another shit year’.

Solid teen vibes.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Meli, I'm waiting for your entry.

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By *assy69Man
over a year ago

West Sussex and Wales

"... did you write a diary? Do you still have your diaries? If you do, do you have any excerpts you'd be happy to share with The Lounge?"

No, I didn’t keep a diary, but I did write poetry, found it helped get everything off of my chest. I burned everything the night that the first Mrs Stu found some poetry I’d written in my teens and she took it all personally, nothing salacious or outrageous, just some stuff about embracing death like a long lost over type of stuff..... it was never written to be read by anyone so I burnt all my

Poetry and all of my short stories and I never set pen to paper again in the same way...... looking back I suppose I should have been happy that something I’d written so long ago could evoke emotions in someone else.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didn’t, but I used to write terrible song lyrics on the back of cigarette packets that I thought were really good at the time.

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

I used to write the sexual antics I got up to with my boss on his desk when I was 19...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’ve kept a diary my whole life, however it is very very light on sexual adventures and swinging as I do intend them to be read by descendants at some point.

A good few years ago I did consider having a diary purely for my naughty adventures, but decided I wanted a part of my life private

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I used to write the sexual antics I got up to with my boss on his desk when I was 19..."

N-n-n-n-nineteen.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Hell no.

It would be so sad if I did write them.

Went to school, got bullied. Laughed at pathetic Eddies kids, trying to punch me as I rode past them

Went to school, got into a fight.

Went to school, skipped a double lesson. Beat my time cycling home, also hit 24mph on the flat.

Hardly Adrian Mole's diary.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What's the expression 'Keep a diary and one day it will keep you'.

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By *00KissesCouple
over a year ago

Stourbridge

No diary but have a little book people wrote in when I left high school. 1995 phrase of the year - live life to the max

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hey, Meli.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

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By *errero RochelleWoman
over a year ago

Chocoville

Not a diary. But a list of guys I shagged. Does that count?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not a diary. But a list of guys I shagged. Does that count?"

Did you count?

You’ve piqued my interest now.

Did you give them a rating and maybe a memorable quote?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh i used to write diaries as a kid/teenager... But think they must have been thrown out..

Probably full of:

"I know i was accidentally switched at birth.. I bet my real mum is looking for me.."

"i wish i had a pony.. I would love him and ride him every day and plait his mane + tail"

"boys are the PITTS.. Why do they exist.."

"Black Beauty I

you"

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By *errero RochelleWoman
over a year ago

Chocoville

"Not a diary. But a list of guys I shagged. Does that count?

Did you count?

You’ve piqued my interest now.

Did you give them a rating and maybe a memorable quote?

Tried to remember their name and origin. This was few years ago.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wrote a diary for the first time when I spent a year in Australia, I still have it in the loft

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Monday, March 11th 2002.

Mood - Overprotected B Spears.

Why can't I be first violin? It's not like [redacted] is any good, it's just because they look nice and they are the favourite. It makes me so angry. I always do everything right but it gets ignored. Grandma has said she will pay for me to go to Spain with school but I'm not sure Mum will like it, she gets funny about things like that. I might get [redacted] to try and straighten my hair with an iron. I wish I had long blonde hair.

***And it is in a beautiful pink furry diary emblazoned with Groovy Chick and an animated woman on it. I shall send you a photo of me with it in the morning.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Monday, March 11th 2002.

Mood - Overprotected B Spears.

***And it is in a beautiful pink furry diary emblazoned with Groovy Chick and an animated woman on it. I shall send you a photo of me with it in the morning.

This is giving me serious nostalgia

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Monday, March 11th 2002.

Mood - Overprotected B Spears.

***And it is in a beautiful pink furry diary emblazoned with Groovy Chick and an animated woman on it. I shall send you a photo of me with it in the morning.

I've just read this, I was that busy with last night's nocturnal thread. We're you ever first violin?

Did you go to Spain? I've got to listen to that Britney Spears song. Thank you, Groovy Chick.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I wrote a diary for the first time when I spent a year in Australia, I still have it in the loft"

I'd like to read some of your down under diary.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Not a diary. But a list of guys I shagged. Does that count?

Did you count?

You’ve piqued my interest now.

Did you give them a rating and maybe a memorable quote?

Tried to remember their name and origin. This was few years ago."

I had to do this recently!

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By *amie HantsWoman
over a year ago

Atlantis

Yes I kept diaries and yes I still have them.

On the front page of one of mine from when I was a kid, it has an ‘About the Author’ page. One of the questions was “if you had a pet talking snail, what would you call it?” I answered ‘I would ask him his name and what his favourite colour was so I can paint his shell house’

Comedy genius from 8yo Jamie. Well done me.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"Monday, March 11th 2002.

Mood - Overprotected B Spears.

***And it is in a beautiful pink furry diary emblazoned with Groovy Chick and an animated woman on it. I shall send you a photo of me with it in the morning.

I've just read this, I was that busy with last night's nocturnal thread. We're you ever first violin?

Did you go to Spain? I've got to listen to that Britney Spears song. Thank you, Groovy Chick.

Yeah, I was first violin in the county youth orchestra! Take that [redacted] who is now one of my closest friends.

I did go to Spain, my mum wasn't happy in the slightest as teen me predicted. God I was so wise even back then. I should really write a diary now and listen to my inner voice of wankdom, I'll know all the answers.

Thanks for answering my question! It made my year.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Up yours, [redacted]!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Monday, March 11th 2002.

Mood - Overprotected B Spears.

***And it is in a beautiful pink furry diary emblazoned with Groovy Chick and an animated woman on it. I shall send you a photo of me with it in the morning.

I've just read this, I was that busy with last night's nocturnal thread. We're you ever first violin?

Did you go to Spain? I've got to listen to that Britney Spears song. Thank you, Groovy Chick.

Yeah, I was first violin in the county youth orchestra! Take that [redacted] who is now one of my closest friends.

Thanks for answering my question! It made my year.

I think you need to be Meli Beaver aged 13 3/4 and see about publishing these.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Yes I kept diaries and yes I still have them.

Comedy genius from 8yo Jamie. Well done me. "

There's a logic to your youthful humour.

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By *urtyGentMan
over a year ago

eastleigh

"Yes I kept diaries and yes I still have them.

Comedy genius from 8yo Jamie. Well done me. "

Of course you kept diaries, I suspect that is what stopped you keeping some mates?

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

I found a comment in my diary "fingered - - - - - - -"

Name removed for discretion on here

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I did and kept many of them but I'm unsure whether I can get access to the British Library, to get some excerpts. It's rather mundane though, I'd have an occasional giggle at how bad it is but it's better screened from others. Growing pains

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Yeah, I was first violin in the county youth orchestra! Take that [redacted] who is now one of my closest friends.

Thanks for answering my question! It made my year.

I think you need to be Meli Beaver aged 13 3/4 and see about publishing these. "

No one in their right mind would want to read the self involved, emo whinings of a middle class brat. I've sent a couple of screenshots to my friend who promptly told me I'm still as much of a competitive twunt as I was back then.

(Thank you for the compliment Hope

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I found a comment in my diary "fingered - - - - - - -"

Name removed for discretion on here

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

I have an old box of love letters from my teens/twenties. But not a diary.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Saturday 6th February 2021

What the fucking hell has Jim got on his head ? Nice lad but .......fuck what is that.

No jam in house.

Had a great wank.

Went to bed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember times when the front door was always open and everyone was huddled around the fire in the front room.

I never understood why they didn't just shut the front door, it'd be much warmer!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ugh I did yes and had older sisters that would find and read them. Excruciating stuff, I just wouldnt be able to even look at them let alone read, I was practising thinking sexual thoughts. They ended up with another sister mistakenly after Mum had a clear out and I instructed her to burn them. After she had had a sneaky read too no doubt. Awful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I did have a diary when I was about 5/6 ish I only have a few pages from it somewhere I remember one page about my hamster dying and how we buried him behind the greenhouse

I kept logs if we went on holiday but I never wrote in it everyday...

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By *isspurplechesterWoman
over a year ago

Chester

Unfortunately no diaries for me when I was younger, probably just as well, I wouldn’t be able to understand my dyslexic ramblings anyways

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

Nope, but i should do - i have trouble remembering what i did last week.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a diary.

I faked being ill once to stay off school, and my mam made me eat nothing but soup for a week. In my diary I recited Oliver Twist being the drama queen I am.

I woke one day to my mam singing "food glorious food" to me

Needless to say she read the diary and I never wrote in one again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Only once I have ever kept a diary, it was my pregnancy diary on my first child. Lovely memory keepsake.

Her x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I did not.

It's all up here *taps noggin*

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Saturday 6th February 2021

What the fucking hell has Jim got on his head ? Nice lad but .......fuck what is that.

No jam in house.

Had a great wank.

Went to bed. "

Hahahaha.

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