LECTURES AT HOME - IRVING FINKEL

I so enjoyed this that I looked up other talks Dr Irving Finkel had given. I also emailed the BBC to see if we could get the talk he referred to reinstated on 'sounds' but got no reply!

After much frustration with the internet connection, finally viewed this lecture which was quite unusual to what one would expect. It made me realize the importance of revealing the truth in what really happens in one's life. When I became a grandmother I started a diary writing all about the events with my grandson. One day I realized to my shock I had stopped writing in it and started to read what it contained, and was literally surprised to recall events that I had completed forgotten. I hope my grandson will cherish this when he gets older.

Thank you for this great diary project.

I have occasionally wondered what will happen to all my 'stuff' when I have passed on. Now at least I know where my diaries will end up. I looked up the Great Diary Project and found that they are also interested in people's writings on the great coronavirus pandemic of 2020: "We have reflection from diarists on what the virus, and its fall-out, means at all levels of human experience: including the personal, the interpersonal, the social, the national, the global and the ecological. If you feel moved to contribute  – as a one-off or as part of your greater diary-writing enterprise – please  do not hesitate to email ... pollynorth(@)hotmail.com.".

I wonder, though, what will happen if the number of donated diaries reaches a million, or ten million, or more?

This is so interesting that I have shared it with various people. I am sure that novelists would find the diaries inspirational. Maybe I will ask for my teenage diary from the 1960s to be donated when I die. In it most experiences are described as fab. And to the Society, thanks for enlivening lockdown with this excellent series of lectures at home. Hopefully there will be another series.