Monday 24 November 1975
Sitting in a crowded room on a sofa with Maggie. She
leans back and my arm gets trapped around her. She says, ‘Was that
intentional?’
‘No;
it happened automatically, by accident.’
I go to
find Howard. I get out of the big building via the cellar bar. I have to crawl
along a tube. I say to the manager, ‘I’ll have to find the other way out with Maggie.’
I say ‘Good evening.’ I race back to find Maggie.
We
come out of a public bog together. I open the door. MM is there. ‘A bender!’ I
scream, closing the door. I try to lock him out but he’s locked me in! I make a
run for it. Howard goes round the bogs with him. I return to Maggie. Walking
under a walkway as at UEA [famously], I see the other Howard from Barrow.
‘Baaa!’
I say but he doesn’t laugh, doesn’t respond, and I pass. He’s sulking with his
girl friend from Keswick. [Not the town but a teacher training college in
Norwich.] When I get to Maggie, she’s talking to Steve. I join in. He’s embarrassed.
