Monday, 2nd. February 1976

After a Cartography lecture this morning I was off to the 4th.floor at lunchtime for the King’s Hustings. A grand-sounding title for what turned out to be an amusing series of talks by the three candidates for President of the King’s College Union. I was not impressed.

Spatial Analysis this afternoon was on Student’s T-test, which I found difficult to understand – probably because I am not very good at mathematics – but which I found easy in practice. In fact I finished my calculations well before time and was allowed to leave early!

A grim night in terms of bars and music – but I enjoyed fish and chips at 28p! By comparison, lunch had set me back 19p.

5 Years Ago Today…

A Perfect Day – Gardening & Memorabilia

Tuesday, 2nd. February 2021

I recorded this as a very rare ‘Perfect Day’. Lockdown and the first day of gardening in 2021 – I managed to get a lot done: weeded the vegetable garden, cleaned out the greenhouse, pruned the pelargoniums and the hydrangea – the latter quite severely. It was in the wrong place but moving it would be beyond my capability.

I found a great deal of memorabilia, including two ‘love’ letters from the 70’s and 80’s from women I was very fond of that I didn’t recall ever reading before. I also discovered old diaries, concert tickets, gig guides and so on from my days as a student at LSE. And that was the start of my ‘LSE Diary’ on my website.