Diary: Write on typewriter, do every evening, morning and afternoon to fill time.
I thought being at a typewriter meant that I was composing stories or poetry, like a musician at a piano. This meant that it was a stream of consciousness.
Garden: Chopped and cleared wood to be taken away.
Gosforth: Went to Royalty to check cartoons on Saturday. No.
Cycled around looking for Jesmond Dene. very windy. Rabbit. Nick migraine. Mum out. Picks up. I ride cycle to home. Windy.
Born and raised at the north end of Gosforth around Melton Park and Brunton Park and only coming in to Gosforth High Street for school when I was at home, or into Town for the shops within a short walk of the Haymarket, my knowledge of my home town was limited. Jesmond Dene was a place talked about for the hill and ravine, but I’d never been there – driven through as a short cut to the coast road perhaps. It was too wet and windy to cycle so I wonder if mum came and found me to get me home.
Girlfriend: Change. Meet Jane outside Westfield school in front of everyone. Jo shows off her brother. Round to Jane’s and do Julie’s fortune, look at photos.
This was a novelty that made me feel good: a boy outside a girls school not just meeting my sister (a first), but meeting my girlfriend (another first) before going around to her house.
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