Reason for diary

I've always admired people who write diaries. There is no way an ordinary person can recall details of their life as well as by referring to a diary they had written at the time, so when I had a period of work in 1979 which was not totally time consuming I thought that would be an opportune time to keep a diary. This slack period did not last long, but was felt to be long enough to give a good flavour of our life at the time.

Thirty years later, having reached a 'retired' state, whatever that is meant to wistfully portray, I thought it should be put in the public domain, initially in blog form, to see whether there would be any interest in such material.

Actually, the main reason probably has to be for our children to remind them of the hard times they had in their formative years, and also for the grandchildren to give them an idea of what their parents went though when they were children.