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Very evocative collection of information - your diaries seem to be a wonderful resource.
Did you literally play with trains at Bekonscot - which would have met one of my unmet ambitions, or were you confined, like thousands of others, to watching and wishing you could have something like it in your own garden?
Malcolm | 17.04.17 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Sadly there were more episodes of Crossroads to come.
Mystic Meg | 17.04.17 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Wake up, switch on DG, yet more Bank Holiday repeats, yawn, go back to sleep...
Ken | 17.04.17 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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I found myself drawn to how the date of Bank Holiday Monday has varied from year to year...
Can I make a request? A similar retrospective of DG's diary entries, for the past 40-odd years, on my forthcoming birthday! [we are both born in '65]
sisyphus | 17.04.17 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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It's actually the very last word of this that reminded me how long I've been visiting this blog.
You used to write about having 'jam jar' days. After an initial guess you were using slang to say "going somewhere in a car" it took quite a while to realise you were actually being literal.
RogerW | 17.04.17 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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Update on 2009. Dad did decide to enter paintings in future exhibitions. Has sold another one at this year's show.
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Only seven March Easter Mondays in 40 years.
dg writes: but nine March Easters.
Red Cardinal | 17.04.17 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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I hope your cough has finally gone away.
mclm | 17.04.17 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Over the past few days we've had celebrations of semi-colons, commas and full-stops. What next I wonder? All three pieces were DG excellence and greatly enjoyed. I think that today's has resonated most with me - I am an age now (state pension later this year) when looking back seems to take over from looking forward to - just because there is so much to look back on! And you sow the seeds of things to do in the coming week - one of which will be old-style sandwiches of tinned salmon. That'll evoke past memories galore.
Nicholas F | 17.04.17 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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Oh to be able to remember when Disney Time was an eagerly anticipated 'thing'.
John DLC | 17.04.17 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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I remember an unpleasantly cold Easter holiday 2013 in London. Cloakroom staff at a theatre in Southwark advised me to keep on my coat, since the auditorium was unheated.
Joachim | 17.04.17 - 10:44 a.m. | #
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@9:17 a.m: well done to Daddy Geezer!
Gail | 17.04.17 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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Delightful glimpse into the life of DG, family quirks and all!
Cornish Cockney | 17.04.17 - 11:43 a.m. | #
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2008 was March, not April.
dg writes: Which is why it was so chilly. Fixed, thanks.
langdon | 17.04.17 - 9:31 p.m. | #
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Monday 17th April 2017: Watched a plane land at Gatwick. Popped into the Millennium Seed Bank. Met numerous pheasants and became blasé of bluebells.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.04.17 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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Shame they can't just fix Easter to be the 2nd weekend in April every year..
Adrian | 18.04.17 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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The Samuel Pepys of our era. Have you arranged which institution will get your diaries after your death? A national treasure. This comment is meant sincerely.
JonathanC | 22.04.17 - 11:13 a.m. | #
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