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18 May 1982
Tue May XVIII Went to Taupo. Up at 6am. Boring 5hr bus journey. Met by Dads Auntie Shelagh and Uncle Neil. The ‘Batch’ has an outside loo and there was a dead rat in there.* Went to some thermal baths … Continue reading
Posted in 1982 Diary, Bad Things, Family, New Zealand
Tagged Dad, Dead, Neil, Sheelagh, Taupo, Vermin
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17 May 1982
Mon May XVII Gran rang up at 6.20. Guess who got out of bed! Went to the library at Mt A Nowadays, it wouldn’t shock me too much if the phone began ringing at twenty past six in the morning. … Continue reading
Posted in 1982 Diary, Family, Happy Things
Tagged Alarm Clock, Birthday, Gran, Karen, Kevin, Telephone
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16 May 1982
Sun May XVI Lisa’s birthday. Up at 7.20 – not too bad I suppose. Everyone knows that teenagers like to sleep. I never thought that I was particularly like that until I came across this particular entry. Either I was … Continue reading
Posted in 1982 Diary, Family, Happy Things, New Zealand
Tagged Birthday, Lisa, McDonald's, Paper Round, Sleep, Teenager
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15 May 1982
Sat May XV PARTY – aargg!!!! Stayed in my room watching Sport on One There are upsides and downsides to having two sisters. One of the downsides is that birthdays tend to result in your house being filled with – … Continue reading
Posted in 1982 Diary, Family, New Zealand
Tagged Birthday, Karen, Lisa, Rossgrove Youth Group, Sport On One, Swimming
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14 May 1982
Fri May XIV Went to St L’s in the pouring rain to replenish stox for the PARTY tomorrow This is one of the more curious entries in the diary. The handwriting is appalling, even by my standards. To hazard a … Continue reading
13 May 1982
Thur May XIII Lisa went to the zoo. Played Ulcers and actually won, so the ‘jinx’ is broken. The biggest question going through my mind is just how many times we must’ve played Ulcers for me to think that I … Continue reading
12 May 1982
Wed May XII Took Karen to R.T.S. and when I fetched her back I got invited to join in a game of HIT THE DECK with them. Decided to join the youth group and am going Swimming with them on … Continue reading
Posted in 1982 Diary, Family, New Zealand
Tagged Auckland, Hit the Deck, Karen, Rossgrove Team Scene, Rossgrove Youth Group
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Friendship
I have been inexplicably lucky over the years. I have developed so many friendships that I don’t really deserve to have. Over the course of the next few Fridays I want to tell you about some of them – not … Continue reading
11 May 1982
Tue May XI The Proverbial Guides’ do? They took over 1 hr on the Treasure hunt, and even then we had to stop them for tea. And we got some very interesting spellings of ‘caravan’. It took me until quite … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand, Family, 1982 Diary
Tagged Auckland, Girl Guides, Handwriting, Spelling, Punctuation, Career
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10 May 1982
Mon May X Went to St L’s. Arranged a Treasure hunt for Karens Guides ‘do‘ tomorrow. Treasure hunts seem to be one of those things that have gone completely out of fashion, but for a time they seemed to be … Continue reading
Posted in 1982 Diary, Family, Girls, New Zealand
Tagged Dad, Girl Guides, Karen, Mum, Treasure Hunt
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