The Wharfe is a pretty river and in its upper reaches – at Burnsall, say, or Bolton Abbey – spectacularly so. Lower down, though, south of Harewood in the flat lands of East Yorkshire, it drifts between muddy banks and rhubarb fields and is a pretty dismal waterway. But then so is Leeds’s local river, the Aire. No fish there either, but at least there was Kirkstall Abbey. At Ulleskelf there was nothing, and on the rare occasions when Dad managed to cast his line as far as the middle of the river his bait was spurned by the few fish which infested its murky depths. On the three or four trips we made there was never a solitary bite. Meanwhile, Mam sat glumly by with her Woman’s Own while my brother and I read our comics, the float never twitching. Steve Ely’s poem, or its footnote, talks of an eel fishery at Ulleskelf, but we knew nothing of this, and had Mam known that we were likely to run into one of these mysterious and dirty creatures that would have put paid to fishing straight off. In the course of the run, various luminaries came round after the show to see A.G., with him telling me to come myself one night as Graham Greene would be in the audience. I duly turned up, but remember little of the conversation (there wasn’t much conversation to remember), my abiding memory only that Greene’s was the limpest hand I’d ever shaken. Nor did he say a word about the play, for or against. It may be that as a friend and persistent advocate of Philby’s, he had like some of the newspapers misidentified Alec as Philby. Whatever it was, I thought it a graceless performance. However, a few nights later, another visitor wiped away the memory. This was Coral Browne, funny, gossipy, and who had even liked the play, relating it to her own experiences in Moscow, where she had met Guy Burgess, and giving me, ready plotted, another play in An Englishman Abroad.

February. Last week Rupert and his whole office were thrown into confusion when for no reason at all the management inquired how many of the team could work from home. This was taken to be the prelude to some sort of shedding of staff. Today it transpires it’s less inimical than this, but rather a precaution. The coronavirus in Italy has meant the Milan office has had to close down, the inquiry in case a similar situation should arise in London. This is thought to be unlikely. month planners run from July to December of the following year. This academic format is extremely useful for students and teachers, but also for anyone who likes to start afresh mid-year and plan further into the future. October. I don’t always understand the poems in the LRB, or new poems generally, and what catches my eye in the poem ‘John’s and Sam’s’ by Steve Ely is not the poem itself but its footnote, explaining that John and Samuel Smith’s breweries are located on the River Wharfe near Tadcaster, upstream from the former eel fishery of Ulleskelf. It’s Ulleskelf I recognise. I know Ulleskelf or did. I have been fishing there. It was a long time ago, nearly eighty years in fact, but the boredom of the experience is fresh as ever. Diaries, calendars, and planners are a great way to stay organised and have all your tasks or to-do lists out on paper. One diary does not suit all, our extensive range of diaries, calendars & planners are available in a range of designs & colours to match your style or personality.

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April. The most one can hope from a reader is that he or she should think: ‘Here is somebody who knows what it is like to be me.’ It’s not what E.M. Forster meant by ‘only connect,’ but it’s what I mean. May. I’ve never been that fond of my hands. Now, much washed as we are told, they scarcely bear looking at: shiny, veinous and as transparent as an anatomical illustration. Far from the matt, solid, sensible instruments one has always hankered after. More ‘artistic’, I suppose. An old lady’s hands, lying idle in a lap somewhere. March. Photo in the Guardian of a homemade sign at the entrance to Malham village telling or rather entreating the hordes of tourists to go home. In our village twenty miles or so away the car park is full and the place far busier than on a normal Sunday. So far from social distancing some of the visitors practically link arms. Still, it makes a change from brawling over toilet rolls. March. With Rupert now working from home my life is much easier, as I get regular cups of tea and a lovely hot lunch.December. A card from a friend, Paul Fincham, drawing my attention to a passage in Kilvert’s Diary (which I thought I’d read). Explore our complete selection of diaries to find a planner that fits the way you organise your time. Choose between daily, weekly or monthly planners covering either 12 months or 18 months. Looking for some more stationery supplies to compliment your diary, planner or calendar? Discover our great range of fashions pens & pencils to go alongside your new stylish diary or planner. Or for academic large calendars, marker pens are the ultimate pairing to ensure your most important appointments are jotted down. June. Coming to the end of English Pastoral, James Rebanks’s second volume. It’s harder to read than A Shepherd’s Life, with the central section about the onset of factory farming not easy to take. Thankfully, though, in his own life at any rate the tide turns and Rebanks regains his grip on traditional farming and with it offers some hope, without it being ‘fine writing’ as so much pastoral writing is. What it is, though it’s self-serving to say so, is a commentary on the last speech from Forty Years On: ‘Were we closer to the ground as children or is the grass emptier now?’ Thereare three main types of diary. A traditional diary is a place to keep a regular update of events in your life. A planner is used to organise events and work to do. And a journal is a place you store a collection of ideas, thoughts and memories, but unlike a diary isn't tied to a time or period.

August. Rupert goes upstairs to do his Pilates on Zoom. His teacher is round the corner, but she is currently with her husband in Canada. Still, up he goes in his T-shirt and shorts as it’s quite strenuous, and it makes no difference that she’s on the other side of the world. March. Thanks to arthritis I’m now much less mobile than I was. Gone are the days when I could jump on my bike to pop down to the shops, so static semi-isolation is scarcely a hardship or even a disruption of my routine. Himself no slouch when it came to work, George Steiner once asked a Soviet dissident how he got through so much. ‘House arrest, Steiner. House arrest.’ Alas, so far as work is concerned, I haven’t yet noticed much difference. September. Sent by her biographer, Jasper Rees: a letter I wrote to Victoria Wood turning down a part in her comedy series. ‘I can’t face playing any more men with dusters. I don’t mean I want to play Burt Reynolds parts, only somewhere between him and Richard Wattis, say – those are the parameters.’ September. One phone call today, a woman inquiring if I’ve made arrangements for my funeral yet. At least it isn’t a recorded voice.Get super organised for 2023 with the perfect diary and calendar to plot out your busy schedule and count down the days to those exciting events. The PDF files (.pdf) are saved in Adobe PDF format version 1.4 and can be opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader from version 5.0. Alternatively most other PDF readers can also be used, for example the PDF-XChange Viewer and the Foxit Reader. The PDF files can also be scaled up and down and printed on paper sizes other than A4 (eg. enlarged to A3/A2 or reduced A5/A6). Academic diaries are perfect for going to school and uni, giving you a practical space to jot down exams or assignment deadlines to help reduce stress and feeling overwhelmed. Or perhaps a planner suits you best. With wipe off coatings, different designs, and extended dates in case you forget to buy next year's new wall planner in time. You can also try a personalised diary , allowing you to add text and names to make the perfect gift for students, teachers, and those close to you Don't forget that all our Classic Planners can be personalised with a word or message on the cover. A personalised diary is unique to you, as well as being a great way to create a special gift. You can also customise your planner with pins: we have a selection of charms with either letters or symbols designed to attach to the elastic closure to add some personalised sparkle. She was a great woman, her performance of ‘Let’s Do It’ at the Albert Hall the stuff of legend. I just hope Noël Coward was still around to see it. I first met her, almost epically, in Sainsbury’s in Lancaster at the avocado counter. Her Dinnerladies was often sentimental, but she caught in the part of the handyman, played by Duncan Preston, the idiom of an old-fashioned working-class man, elaborate, literate and language-loving, which is, or was, more typical of the North than the more clichéd dialect-rich versions.

A good diary is worth its weight in gold. It can hold all your plans, be a place for your thoughts or just be something to doodle in from time to time. We've pulled together some of the most Frequently Asked Questions about buying a diary to make it easier for you. Fishing is generally thought of as a solitary pursuit. It is one of its attractions. But not in the Bennett family. If Dad was going fishing we all had to go, my brother and me and (in a brief interruption to her own craze of lampshade-making) my mother. On Sundays we often went hiking, though we never called it that, and it was far from plain from the way we were dressed: my brother and me in our school caps, Mam in her swagger coat and Dad in his ‘other suit’– i.e. not the one with his greasy shop trousers. We never joined in, got the gear, looked the part, and so it was with fishing.There is a wide variety of cover colours and vibrant limited edition themes to accompany you throughout the year, as well as our personalisation service to add a unique message to the cover of any hardcover or softcover Classic Planner. All our diaries also contain useful planning tools such as month-by-month year calendars, travel tools and measures and conversions. April. A card from Tom King with news of the tattoo of me that he had put on his arm (pictured in the Diary published in the LRB of 3 January 2019): ‘The tattoo remains popular, though bizarrely one person thought it was of Henry Kissinger. It also makes for an amusing conversation during intercourse.’ This suggests the intercourse might be less than fervent, my name in itself something of a detumescent. March. The York Theatre Royal’s tour of The Habit of Art, the play about Auden and Britten which did well last year and was due to be revived for a festival in New York, has had to be cancelled. I write to the cast apologising and saying that one person who would not be washing his hands every five minutes is W.H. Auden.