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…
London 28/08/1992 Friday
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…
I could have been a porn star!
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…
London 09/11/1990 Wednesday, The End of my first year
London 09/11/1990 Wednesday 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 weeks and everyone would have…
London 22/10/1990 Monday
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…
London 17/10/1990 Wednesday
London 17/10/1990 Wednesday Patrick called me on Monday afternoon, he wasn’t going to Capoeira but he asked me out for a drink, as he wanted an explanation of the letter I wrote to him. After Capoeira I went to the usual pub we got to after class (Cock Tavern, Highbury…
London 14/10/1990 Sunday
London 14/10/1990 Sunday Everything was going well, until last Thursday – two Thursdays ago was also rough. Patrick didn’t call me at work, and silly me, I still went to 7 Sisters, after English class. When I got to Patrick’s, Sean told me he’d gone to the pub with George.…
London 09/10/1990 Wednesday
London 09/10/1990 Wednesday Had a crazy week! Last Tuesday I decided to stay at home with my mum and not move out. I started a photography course last Monday. On Weds I went to Seven Sisters and stayed with Patrick. On Thursday I went to work and Patrick didn’t call.…
London 26/09/1990 Wednesday
London 26/09/1990 Wednesday We are back already, unfortunately. What a great trip. We arrived in Dublin at 23:00 on Thursday and Patrick’s relatives picked us up and took us to Ashbourne. We went straight to the pub for Patrick to drink proper Guinness and I met Patrick’s father’s four brothers.…
London 20/09/1990 Wednesday
London 20/09/1990 Wednesday Gustavo went back to Brazil a while ago, I think it was the 30th of August. Tomorrow night Patrick and I are going to Ireland to his nephew’s christening on Sunday. I wasn’t going but he insisted and I thought why not? We are going to Galway…