If you could change just one thing about yourself. What would it be? Me, I could ask for a full head of hair. Or to be better looking. Or to be a better bone player. But no. Only one thing I would ask for and that is to sleep properly. I would love to be able to go to bed and sleep until the alarm wakens me?Instead, for years I have had to make do with 4 to 5 hours kip and less sometimes. It's a real pain I can assure you. Diaries are wonderful things, if you have the commitment to keep them going. I am very proud of my book diary 'The Musical Undertaker' and now would like to take you back over 200 years in time and to the diary of a farmers wife Anne Hughes. Just a snippet from December 1796 and exactly how she wrote.
'Itt have snowede soe harde thys 2 dayes, that wee bee quite cutt off from everye boddie bye thee deepe driftes. Itt doe looke verrie strange from thee winders toe see noughte butt snowe, itt bee verie colde ande thee hous verrie darke wythe soe much snow agen thess walls'
Anne went on to say that she was proud of her little 'booke' and wondered if one day anyone would read it? Many have and it is a great insight into the past. Her last entry was when she was in child birth and no one knows if she died during this or just stopped writing. Who know, in 200 years time, my little book might be in some dusty old booke shop and be read by others. I doubt it though as now we have e books it wont take to many years before 'real' books disappear for ever?
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