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Today's Daze

Friday 27 November 1987: Outwell

curry & chips lunch then chicken casserole Joyce’s whither I drove from 4.30 after speaking to Alan about his remortgage.
Didn’t go up Crown.
Amy sick at least 5 times in night. She always vomits at least once, it seems, during our trips to Outwell. She didn’t eat much Saturday, but wasn’t really ill again.

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One Year Ago Today

Wednesday 27 November 1985: Clifton-upon-Dunsmore

Today we ate our first helping of all the shit that comes with being a car owner – Wendy couldn’t start it, aided by 2 or 3 neighbours unknown to us eventually pushed it off, lost it again finally got to town and back without trouble. I got into bad mood of course, Wendy grumpy too,

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Two Years Ago Today

Thursday 27 November 1975: Cambridge

Did a Russian Prose composition and a French translation, as well as attending French translation and prose classes. Also read quite a bit more of “Gogol” Dashed off a few lines I might put in here. I would like to get a notebook and in it write some of Shakespeare’s beauties.

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Three Years Ago Today

Tuesday 27 November 1979: London

Liz … had a brief chat on my training and said Martin had been worried that I wouldn’t ‘come out of my shell’ – “in fact I think we all were” she said. If I wish to progress in insurance as a career I shall have to slip on a mask of assured bonhomie since I

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