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Today's Daze

Wednesday 6 June 2001: Antigua

I sit at my plastic table on my plastic chair – both white – Jolly Harbour Villa 115 overcast Antigua, waves lapping tranquilly at wooden dock, neighbour’s painted ‘private dock no trespassing’ sounds of construction from one-storey wooden framework across the bay absent as they weren’t when I was woken this morning by peckerish thud of tools.

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One Year Ago Today

Wednesday 6 June 1984: Outwell

Ashwell Arms for iced coke listening to Gaffers talking about D-day 40 years ago jamboreed now by electioneering heads of state “Said on telly Americans lost eight thousand that first day.” “Eight thousand what? Pound notes?” “Them Australians though, rough, big bastards. Lot of them come out there, they’d never seen a human being before.”

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Two Years Ago Today

Saturday 6 June 1981: Clifton-upon-Dunsmore

08/06/1981
Back to Rugby on the 1 p.m. train after taking Wendy to see Bruce Springsteen last night (hence the expression – noticed only now). Watched England gain an important win away to Hungary in the World Cup, then a Fassbinder film – Bolwieser – odd but interesting enough

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Three Years Ago Today

Wednesday 6 June 1990: Hong Kong

And that was it, in terms of carousing. Not only no sexual tourism, no tourism at all, no sights always courteous, amiable hosts thought worth showing us. I knew real auditors, those parasites, supposed to keep social distance from hosts, but I had been spoiled drinking and mingling with locals on trips to Latin America

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Four Years Ago Today

Friday 6 June 1975: Cambridge

Heute abend fühle ich mich ziemlich erbittert. Trank 6 Pinten 1 wodka 2 Tequilas jetzt ist es 3 Uhr Morgen kommen Tom & Co. Stritt auch heute abend mit Chris, die heutzutage sehr schlechter Laune ist. Schlief jedoch mit ihr am Nachmittag nachdem wir die Salat und auch eine Abendbluse und Schnips für mich gekauft

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