... I wrote the words below in my diary: "Know what I sometimes wonder? I sometimes wonder what it'll be like looking back over this diary in, say, 30 – 40 ...
A few weeks ago, my parents decided to clear out their loft, and, while he was up there, my dad discovered an old box with my name on it: Er, my ...
Last week, Terry and I were talking about the differences between our own childhoods and Max's, and it got me thinking about some of the things children of Max's generation ...
I’m thinking of burning my teenage diary. You’ll know why when you read it…
Back in December, I brought you part 1 of my very first "diary", in which my six-year-old self obsessed over Star Wars, and her gran's dog, Snoopy. Well, now it's time ...
A few years ago now, I scanned and published some extracts from my very first "diary" - which was actually a school project, in which we were asked to write ...
In yesterday's post I talked a bit (OK, a LOT) about how, before I started blogging, it didn't really occur to me to take photos of my outfits - ...
A couple of weeks ago, I reached the end of the first of the childhood diaries I’ve been transcribing here, so I decided to take a quick look through what…
WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I WAS SO MUCH BRAVER THAN I AM NOW. Actually, that's not quite true: I wasn't even remotely brave. I really wanted to be, though, so I ...
Over the weekend, I was looking for some old photos to use as part of the Diary Project I wrote about last week. Now, there are few things I like ...
After writing yesterday's post, in which I talked at length about that one time a horse died in NeverEnding Story, and it pretty much destroyed my childhood, I suddenly remembered ...
When I was a little girl, my class was one day ushered into our school’s TV Room, and invited to sit down and watch the movie The NeverEnding Story. (I’m…
Readers, a question has flooded in! Here it is: When you were 17, how did you spend most of your Saturdays? Ooh, let me think... when I was 17 I'd be ...
This weekend I started going back through my blog archive, for boring technical reasons which I actually DID start to write down here, but then deleted, because seriously, WHO CARES? ...
Inspired by Corinne's recent post on irrational childhood fears (I wrote one about my own childhood fears here), here are some stupid things I believed when I was a child: That ...
When I was a little girl, we had a Goodie Bowl. It… wasn’t actually a bowl. No, it was a brown jar, with a screw-top lid: apparently its predecessor in…
When I was a little girl, I didn't just have imaginary friends - I had imaginary horses. Quite a lot of them, actually. In fact, I had a little green book ...
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a ballerina. I started ballet lessons purely because of my best friend Jenny. You know that thing your mum always says ...