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Wednesday October 23, 1974

Very quiet day & nothing interesting at all happens. Don't ring Lynne because I forgot all about it until after 9 and decide that it's far too late to bother.

Read a book about the Crown and the constitution till after 12 and drop to sleep with visions of Queen Victoria and Lord Palmerston floating above my head & melting into the wallpaper.

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Wednesday February 11, 1987

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ I am growing old. Receding hair, flab, constant lethargy, &c. So awful. I am increasingly antagonised by ...