Found the diary I kept age 12....fancy a giggle?

[Anniemousse]

Jan 1 1991

Today, after watching the film Space Camp, I have launched a new ambition....to be the first person to have baby in SPACE. Neat huh!

[Anniemousse]

Feb 11 1991
Claire had forgotten to invite me so all is well! Nothing really happened today except Church Youth Club came over for pancakes and a general doss.

[Anniemousse]

Feb 12 1991
Frank came round and it looks like the go ahead for Mum and Dad to foster! Hope it works out! I got a letter confirming my place on Summer Camp. Can't wait! See ya!

[TinyTwoTears]

Doss! I love that word. We used to doss about a lot.

[Anniemousse]

Feb 13 1991
50 days and my nails will be long! Lord help me not to bite them please! School Church Service! (YAWN!) Games, I forgot my towel and got bollocked off McKinley. Can't wait til tomorrow.

[Anniemousse]

Feb 14 1991
Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please,let Benny go out with me.
VALENTINES DAY!
I got Benny a card. Mel gave it to him, I got 1 home made one. Catherine got a massive one off Pollard.

[MinesAPintOfTea]

You can't stop 4 days before valentine's day! How will we ever find out if your One True Love (TM) was reciprocated?

[Lilly20again]

Got off with!!! Too funny. I so remember that.

I burnt mine, sort of wish I had kept the diaries from sixth form. I was in panic that someone would read them.

I had a major obsession with an odd boy, which I'm a bit sad about now. should have just shagged around, your only young once

[MinesAPintOfTea]

x-post

You didn't record who it was off? Or if Benny liked your card?

[Rhubarbgarden]

I'm glad you all enjoyed my poem. There are stacks more, mostly turgid angsty navel gazing. I had such a crush on that boy with the glasses though; a good third are outpourings of unrequited love for him. I bumped into him at a wedding a decade later, by then he was wearing contact lenses and even more drop dead gorgeous. I ended up going out with him for a couple of years, but he was a bit of a prat really so when his hairline started receding I ended it

[Sparklegeek]

I kept a diary every day between the ages of 18 & 23. It is toe-curling But every now & then I do like to dip in & out & pretend I am that person again. And no, I won't be serialising that on here!

[springlamb]

I have my 1981 diary when I was 14. I read it when I want to prove to myself that I really did make a little progress along the road to sanity.
Most of the year is taken up with the angst of being a New Romantic in a house where music stopped with Jim Reeves.
Much is obscured by the practice signatures of the many men I would actually never marry. Hence we have Springlamb Kemp, Springlamb Taylor, Springlamb Ure and Springlamb Strange on one occasion. There are plans to find a way into the Camden Palace.
It all ends sadly in August when I manage to kiss Raymond. No, I don't recall him either.

[thegreylady]

I have mine from when I was 9 (1953) and I love reading it.
30th April 1953
My aunty had a baby, it is quite nice I think. My mammy says it is a bony(bonny?) little thing. Its name will be Margaret because it is a girl and a sister for Paul.
3rd June 1953
Coronation Day. I have a cardboard coach and horses to cut out,I must be careful of the lines. It is fancy dress today and I will be a televison, my daddy made me an aireel.

The baby, my cousin,will be 61 in April and is a grandma :)

[Rhubarbgarden]

Greylady that is so sweet!

[PeaceEagle]

Thanks so much for sharing this. I was 16 in 1991, but I remember my 1987 ramblings surprisingly well. I would write a long litany of woe, and end it with "c'est la vie! (That's life in French)". Such a prat. Also did the lists of boys which would change order every day.

[Edenviolet]

I have my diaries from when I was 12/13/14 after that I stopped as DM would break the locks and read them then embarass me.

Some of the letters I wrote to people I had crushes on were dreadful. I spent a long time doing drafts in my diaries!

[batfuttocks]

Loving this. I was also 11 at the start of 1991 and wrote a diary frighteningly similar to this. I remember reminding myself to record the war - in case of future posterity.

Cooper test = fitness test. We did them too.

[Anniemousse]

Ah, greylady how lovely.

Would love to read some of your diaries too, dig them out and start some threads.

(Should have added some !!! as a nod to my 12 yo self)

[Anniemousse]

Feb 15 1991
School Hols! Didn't do much, went to the library, read some books. Dad took mum out for a meal.

[Anniemousse]

Feb 16 1991
Guide rehearsals for tomorrows Thinking Day Service. I'm carrying the Colours Flag.

[Anniemousse]

Feb 17 1991
You're never gonna believe this but Benny was at the Thinking Day Service! It's TRUE! Mum's friend C came over and brought her girls. Me and J went to the woods. Then after tea we played the Jason Donovan Game.

[Anniemousse]

Feb 18 1991
I went to the library and got 4 new books. Mum's friend F came over. No school.

[GoEasyPudding]

Enjoying your diary entries everyone!

I kept all my diaries, ages 10 - 22 or so, on and off. There is a bit of a gap around the time I was 12 though.

However I did find this musing about a times table test and other subjects when I was 11.....I'm a bit worried that not cheating is news...

Wednesday 28th of March 1984

I did well and didn't cheat!
I improved by about 4, well I know it's not by much but its better than nothing! I've gone off the A Team because it hasn't been on for a long time. I'm back on pop music so I'm going to go on and on about it - sorry. I like Howard Jones and the Thompson Twins"

[Anniemousse]

Feb 19 1991
Samuel Paul Peter Jones is Paul's dad. Found out in a personal document! Anna came over. She also knows about SPPJ.

Shame. My older brother has a different birth father but adopted by my dad. When my parents were out one day I rifled through some paperwork out of idle curiosity and found my brother's adoption papers. I did know already that he had a different dad

[bakeroony]

when magnified by glasses

I was 5 in 1991. My first diary around that age (well, 1992) is entirely filled with entries about sweets, Noel's House Party, Gladiators and visits from Grandma.

My diary from when I was 13 is so cringe I think I must have embarrassed myself and not written again for 6 years. However my 19-year-old self was even worse.

Yes, I had a "fitty list".

[Anniemousse]

Feb 20 1991
Went to the pictures with Lauren, saw 3 men and a Little Lady, it was O.K.!! Danielle was there though!