Category: firstyearinlondon

London 05/12/1989 Tuesday David called on Sunday, apologising, saying he’d been busy. I said I was going out with my mum and couldn’t see him. He asked if we could meet on Monday, I told him to call then. On Monday we went to have lunch at Carmen’s and I read the Folha de Sao…

London 02/12/1989 Saturday David called yesterday at 5 and we went out to pay bills for the flat, the heating bill. I was in a bad mood and mostly ignored him. I was singing in Portuguese all the time. When we got to the place to pay the bill he was £6 short (the bill…

London 30/11/1989 Thursday It happened… Yesterday David and I met at 10 in the morning (so hard to get up so early with the cold). Went to his flat as he wants to move there and decorate it. He wanted to clean it all up. He took the old carpet out and is going to…

London 28/11/1989 Tuesday Watched two great movies last night: The first night of a man and Psycho. Had a really bad stomach ache yesterday, it was incredibly painful and lasted hours. It started with a light pain at 2 in the afternoon, when I got home and ate (had been out with David) it went…

London 25/11/1989 Saturday Yesterday my mum and I met David, on the corner, my mum went to college and we went to take photos and walk around the West End. We walked lots and then ate. We went to a park and stayed there for two hours, trying to communicate. It’s frustrating wanting to say…