We’d got to the stage, by the end of 1992, that most of our getting togethers didn’t get specific mention as “Jane” or “Ian” in our respective diaries.
Yet this particular weekend, 5th to 7th February, is marked in Janie’s diary:
Ian over for weekend…
…and marked in mine…
Jane [with an arrow and a line through the weekend]
The significance of this, I think, is that we had not, untilt hat point or slightly beyond that point, considered spending the whole weekend together as a given. In fact, with Janie still taking a fair bit of weekend work and with me spending some weekend time writing the book with Michael etc, we rarely spent several days together.
Clearly we blocked this one out to spend the whole weekend together.
Janie also wrote:
Arab party?…
…in the Saturday, but I don’t think that happened. I think the New Years Eve party with lebanese food…
…became that party instead – probably because most of Janie’s lot used to go off skiing in the early weeks of the year.
There are some notes on Janie’s Friday page about food:
Strips of top side or buttock flattened out for beef olives…
…sounds like we ate well at Janie’s fair hand.
