My Teenage Diary
Seb MerrickI started sharing, 40 years on, in full, my teenage diary from pre-digital 1984. In 1985 I went interrailing. And other writings: poems, songs, and other personal things I wish to write. To you. Thanks for subscribing.
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1984: The Live Show (London, 8 February 2026)
One thing leads to another, they say. One minute you’re sitting at home of an evening, aged 16, having done your homework, writing a diary about nothing much at all, the next minute you’re performing it on stage. How did that just happen?...
Poem: Final Resting Place
There’s a poem at the bottom of this somewhere. This post got hijacked by a long introduction, but I’m going to run with rambling, if that’s not a mixed metaphor. Scroll down if you just want the poem.
I’m desperately trying to find t...
To Be Masters
Here’s a poem. It’s about practising. It’s about mastering. It’s about people who are really truly masters. And then there’s the rest of us. It’s about music. It’s about humdrum life, which we all seek to master day by day.
Here you go...
Travels 1985/1959 #4 Quite mad but would do it again.
40 years ago last week I was heading up through Italy with my two school friends, Charles and Colin on our 3-week interrailing trip, aged 18. 64 years ago my dad was just finishing his own three weeks of hitchhiking around Europe, on his ow...
Travels 1985/1959 #3 Rome and Olympia
OK so we’re into the 3rd week of European travels ’85/’59. I’m travelling with 2 school friends through Greece August 1985, and we’re bedding down in unlikely places. We’re backpacking on a budget. My dad is heading to Rome in 1959. On an e...
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