tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post8321331273290462762..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: Letts: a relicRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-68107683250678081662011-05-19T17:09:13.982-07:002011-05-19T17:09:13.982-07:00Throughout my first 20 years in Medicine I used L...Throughout my first 20 years in Medicine I used Lett's pocket diary, or more correctly a scheduler. A tiny book with a red ribbon page marker. It was perfect. I still have them all.Dr. Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-80382776802466379462011-05-20T23:26:53.419-07:002011-05-20T23:26:53.419-07:00I always had a Letts diary from the year I started...I always had a Letts diary from the year I started school until my late twenties ... and <i>usually</i> thereafter, depending on where I was.<br><br>Unlike Dr C, I do not have any of them now ... each would be discarded as their year ended.<br><br>They were of different types ... I particularly remember a "schoolboy's diary" (given to me by by parents) with school timetable pages, tables of common weights and measures, dates of Kings and Queens of England, an interesting fact on each page and dates such as The Schoolboy's Exhibition at Olympia (to which my father took me, as a direct result) and an "electrical engineering diary" (present from a girlfriend who dumped me for someone more interesting just after new year) with tables of mysterious and fascinating (though not always obviously useful) information from which I learnt many things.<br><br>Each of them would be filled in religiously for between a week and a month and then be used as a scheduler and calendar reference for the rest of the year.<br><br>Then, in the eighties, I discovered the Filofax ... and, in the late nineties, the pocket computer ... so no more Letts diaries. i miss them, in a nostalgic way.Felixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-30255113509725363672011-05-21T04:54:44.211-07:002011-05-21T04:54:44.211-07:00In my teens, I went through a phase of trying to k...In my teens, I went through a phase of trying to keep a diary. I'd get one of those chunky hardback A5ish ones and, as you say, fill it in until the enthusiasm wore off, which was quickly, because I didn't have a terribly interesting life then.Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.com