Who is berk (Diaries)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 107639

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
> <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

Carolyn:
> ooh, Geoff, your restraint does you credit. I feel new members 
really 
> ought to know that this little snippet generated an extraordinarily 
> long thread last year; I'll just say two words: Vauxhall Road!
> 
> Start at 86517 and continue through to 86957 and beyond..I stopped 
> keeping a note of the posts after a while.
> 
> Everything turns on the dates - just why the heck was a teenage 
> trainee evil overlord buying a diary in an obscure, and very 
heavily-
> bombed part of London, when his south London orphanage had been 
> closed at the beginning of the war? [IF..he lived at that 
> orphanage..by no means established]. Discuss..as they say. No 
> satisfactory explanation has yet been found.

Geoff:
Yes, the Vauxhall Road thread did generate a lot of "traffic", egged 
on by myself and Shaun Hately and would still be of interest to new 
members as you suggest but in this latest post, I was just picking up 
on the comments re the use of "diary" versus "journal" without 
considering any further implications.