Anniversary
Twenty four years ago today, Edwina Currie wrote to John Major to break off their relationship.
I wrote to B on Thursday night saying that’s it, no more; posted it Friday morning, so he won’t have seen it yet, maybe not till Tuesday. Because it isn’t quite the fun it was — he has changed… [Diaries, 20.3.1988]
But what fun it once had been!
I wish my flat was filled with one big man in his blue underpants — I wish I was warm and sticky and laughing… [24.1.1991]
Apologies in advance for the mental images this post may conjure up.
Apologies in advance? You could have put a warning before the quotes! But are the relative dates of the extracts correct?
↓ Quote | Posted 18 March, 2012, 10:45 pmYes: the first entry is from Sunday 20th March 1988, referring to Thursday 17th, Friday 18th, and, prospectively, to Tuesday 22nd March.
The second entry is written a few years later, in January 1991, and reminisces about the good old days in the period 1984-8, when they were shagging one another. Currie’s diaries don’t cover much of that period; she only really starts writing it shortly before she breaks up with him, so the March 1988 entry comes early on in the published volume.
↓ Quote | Posted 18 March, 2012, 10:52 pm