![]() So I think I will do that, it will make a good excuse to do morning sketches and play around and if they look a bit crap, I can say they're hearkening back to my drawing then, which wasn't all that great (note the 'gettoblaster' drawing at the bottom of the page). She laughed, and suggested I turn my entries into illustrations. I was just talking to my sister on the phone and reading her an entry I'd written about her. And my total self-preoccupation and related misery makes me blush. From the bits she read, she sounds much more sophisticated than I was at that age, but I could identify with her embarrassment about how earnest she was. I've recently read a few of her fab books, but I haven't read one she published last year, My Secret Diary, which is the actual diary she kept when she was fourteen. In the episode I just watched, Mariella Frostrup interviews the writer Jacqueline Wilson. (I can think of at least two others that must still be in Seattle: one has a stickers on it featuring unicorns and Michael Jackson, and the other was a travel journal from a family trip to Scotland.) Here's the one I have it's padlocked, but I lost the key ages ago and had to cut through the cover to open it. JabberworksI've been watching a BBC programme, Dear Diary, about people who have kept diaries or written diary books (Virginia Woolf, Sue Townsend, Anne Frank and others) and it compelled me to dig up one of my old diaries, the only one from childhood I've brought from my parents' house in the States.
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