Found out who Ian Bellas is, it’s not that lad yesterday, don’t know who he is, but Bellas is that scruffy lad who smokes. Once when we were playing rugby he got kicked in the balls, he was in agony. Now I’ve got Catherine on strings it’s a matter of pulling the right ones. Mum and dad went on a driving test* at 6pm didn’t come back till 9.40, got me worried. When they came back my dad gave me £5.00. Art Teacher said to John Roach and I, each of us has got a piece of work in art into the final of a competition in Warrington. He said if one of us win we get some sort of prize.

* It wasn’t an official driving test as my mum passed that in 1968 it was to gain experience and get used to the new car, an Austin 1800 in maroon