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Five Year Diary
Memory
Basics of Life
17/09/2026
French Tests, Swimming and a Letter from the Outside World
Jonathan Vernon
07/09/2026
Death Spirals, Jaws and the Last Days Before Boarding School
Jonathan Vernon
06/09/2026
A Peter Powell Stunt Kite, Burned Fingers and Usage & Abusage — September 1976
Jonathan Vernon
01/09/2026
Girls, Girls, Girls: A Teenage Diary of Dating in 1976
Jonathan Vernon
24/08/2026
Fourteen in Gosforth: Heatwave, Swimming and Growing Up
Jonathan Vernon
23/08/2026
Appleby Castle to Gosforth: A Teenage Summer Day in 1976
Jonathan Vernon
21/08/2026
I Miss You Before We Met: Childhood Longing, Björk and the Search for the One
Jonathan Vernon
20/08/2026
Grandpa at Eighty, a Russian Record Player and time spent with my girlfriend, August 1976
Jonathan Vernon
19/08/2026
If I Could Erase One Event from History: The Fossil Fuel Revolution
Jonathan Vernon
14/08/2026
Fly Fishing Loch Maree: Witches Point, Sea Trout and a Scottish Summer in 1976
Jonathan Vernon
29/07/2026
The Long Fuse of Lolita: Humbert Humbert, Self-Deception and Literary Style
Jonathan Vernon
27/07/2026
Rewriting Time Enough for Love: A 21st-Century Science Fiction Ending
Jonathan Vernon
16/07/2026
It’s not an either/or question
Jonathan Vernon
13/07/2026
Shere Hite’s The Hite Report! Well thumbed and most read, in the day…
Jonathan Vernon
10/07/2026
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss: ADHD, Career Change and Finding My Place
Jonathan Vernon
06/07/2026
Growing Up in the Chaos of First Love: Teens, Romance and Easter 1978
Jonathan Vernon
04/07/2026
What Does the Unchosen Woman Mean? A Jungian Exploration of a Powerful Dream
Jonathan Vernon
02/07/2026
From Memoir to Novel: Lessons from No Talking After Lights by Angela Lambert
Jonathan Vernon
02/07/2026
What Trivial Disputes Taught Me About Memoir, Memory and Boarding School Life
Jonathan Vernon
27/06/2026
A 20th century swimming pool in a 12th century courtyard: A Sunday Exeat to Appleby Castle in June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
23/06/2026
Curiosity, Boarding School and Becoming JV: The Boy at the Top of the Waterslide:
Jonathan Vernon
16/06/2026
What Would I Tell My 20-Year-Old Self? The Problem With Knowing Too Much
Jonathan Vernon
31/05/2026
Emmanuelle: A Nostalgic Look at 1970s Education – what you are taught, and what you find out for yourself.
Jonathan Vernon
18/05/2026
Balancing Creativity, Coaching, Politics and Family
Jonathan Vernon
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