From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:03:03 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2019-04-12 16:39:04 +0000, Ian Goddard said:   
      
   >> Going off at a slight tangent - what about leaving something about   
   >> yourself for your descendants?   
      
      
      
   >> The first time I encountered an old diary (Arthur Jessop (C.E. Whiting,   
   >> (ed), 1952. Two Yorkshire diaries)) I wished I'd kept something   
   >> similar.   Far too late now and I had the opportunity to make a   
   >> contemporaneous eye-witness account a few bits of history at close   
   >> quarters for extended periods.   
   >   
   >I kept a reasonably detailed diary for the first six weeks of 1959, but   
   >that was it, and I regret that I never took it up again. As a result,   
   >with the diary to remind me I can remember things that happened just   
   >about every day in that period, for example that I first knew the name   
   >of Fred Hoyle on 22nd January 1959. Otherwise it's just a haze. In the   
   >unlikely event that anyone wants to know what I sound like you can find   
   >out at   
      
   I started keeping a diary erratically when I was 11 (in 1952) and   
   regularly since I was about 17.   
      
   I recently transcribed it into a database, and every day I red   
   previous entries going back at 10-year intervals, to remind me of what   
   i was like. I can calso look up when I first met someone (if I   
   recorded it, which I sometimes didn't), read books, saw films and   
   things like that.   
      
      
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