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New year, new diary time! And if you haven't already got 'em, they're half price all over the place in the sales. I picked up one of these teNeues London jobs for £5 from Waterstones for my 'datebook' style diary - beautiful pictures, week to a page, really thick card pages, but not shiny for the paper you write on (thus preventing ink bleeding over on to the shiny picture pages opposite), plenty of space for addresses and notes. It's a bit hefty, but I pretty much always carry a roomy bag of some kind, so not really a problem.
My writing diary I just roll over - start a new one when the old one finishes and I'm not finished the old one yet. I am, however, about to go on a journey and I am desperately seeking a good travel journal. It doesn't have to be dedicated to such, but needs to be a sturdy book, not to heavy (carried on cycle) and preferably with a cover that I can look at and like every day. Suggestions most welcome.
I've just been transferring over the birthdays, phone numbers and other details from my old diary. It's like starting the new year at school and ruling up your books for the first time - everything has to be neat, although you know it will go downhill in no time. I'm very diary reliant, which definitely has its drawbacks, but I also have all my diaries of at least the last ten years, and they are like a record of my life in a more mundane way. They don't reflect my thoughts, but they remind what I did and when - call me self-obsessed but I find it really interesting sometimes to skim back through random weeks from years ago.
So, Barbelith - what have you got? Tell me about your diaries, journals, notebooks and how you feel about them. Please? |
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