Archive for March 18th, 2010

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I used to make scrapbooks of holidays I went on.  I’m pretty sure that somewhere in my parents’ house are various 20-year old ringbound paper scrapbooks from WHSmiths full of postcards, entry tickets and sellotaped-in foreign coinage, and poorly written diary entries that I moaned about having to keep up-to-date.  Still, it started a habit.  It translated to keeping diaries in notebooks and photos in photoalbums, and entry tickets in large piles in places where you’re going to kick them over every other day whilst you work out what you’re going to do with them (I kid you not – I had a pile of tickets and leaflets from Japan stashed under my computer desk for a year and every other day they flew all across the room. Currently I have a pile of Germany touristy stuff piling up on a bookshelf).