My journals from 1984 until now
London 13/03/1993 Saturday Time to write again… I don’t think I ever wrote that I had moved to Essex Road with a ‘friend’ from the Photography course called Anna. It’s a housing association 4 bedroom flat + I have been here since July 92. I did not know Anna was a lesbian + only found … Read more
London 28/08/1992 Friday Feelings on the 1st day without a cigarette! After reading a book by Alan Carr and going through the most excruciating cold + coughing my lungs out I decided to give up. I have been smoking for 6 years and have had enough. I only spent 24 hours without smoking once before … Read more
London, sometime in early 1991… I was living with my then boyfriend in a nice, one bedroom flat in Seven Sisters, after he’d been evicted from the squat where we first met and he decided to actually pay rent. He was earning a good wage as a civil engineer and I was working as a … Read more
London 09/11/1990 Wednesday – The End of the squats and my first year Everyone in the block who was occupying a squat received a letter a month ago, the letter stated that the case was going to court on the 30th of October. Everyone thought that after the 30th there would have been another 2 … Read more
London 22/10/1990 Monday Everything was going so well until another damned Thursday happened… I worked at Ealing on Thursday and called Patrick. I had given him a lovely letter that morning, which he had read and when I called him he said he loved the letter. As the atmosphere was very romantic I said I’d … Read more