Karen at Uborka has been publishing extracts from the diary of a younger Karen. Last night I remembered that on my PC I have the results of an exercise where I went through my diary and edited out the bits where I list my breakfast, or who was on TOTP. I think I did this as raw material for a novel about being an adolescent.
I have been drafting an entry which I may post later when I have refined it. It includes the phrase
I suspect that it would be of more meaning to me if I had read Beowulf sometime in the last 22 years.
Idly I have opened the 'Diary Extract' folder, the earliest one is October 1980. Monday 6 October includes
we then went to History. We had a story of Beowulf read. I drew a face on my hand.
Weird?
