The 100 Day Project | Two Months In

Ruth 100 Day Project, RAF, Scrapbooking, Seen on T'internet, True Stories June 8, 2020May 28, 2020

Two months in and I love this project! It’s been a real blast down Memory Lane; remembering events and/or people I haven’t thought about in years.

I’ve been surprised by a number of things:

I write exactly as I think, without worrying too much about spelling and a correctly placed comma.

The more I’ve thought about the stories I want to tell, the more I’ve remembered.

Some names are obviously long forgotten.

Some names are only remembered by first name and where they worked – for example, Stevie from VASS (Visiting Aircraft Servicing Section).

Some names are only remembered by their nickname – for example, Taff (generic nickname for anyone from Wales), Geordie and Smithy.

The Internet has been an excellent resource for fact-checking and sourcing images. I suspect that If I still used Facebook, my research would have been a whole lot easier.

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Published June 8, 2020May 28, 2020

8 thoughts on “The 100 Day Project | Two Months In”

Mary-Lou Burma says:

June 8, 2020 at 11:58 am

WOW that is such a fabulous project. Some clear memories; Agony Aunt (col); the grave site & I am moved by the term “known only by God”, that is powerful. I wonder if any friends that have F/B could use their F/B account to contact past mates, because you can send just a message to them without them becoming “friends”. It might be worth a chance.

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1. Ruth says:
  
  June 8, 2020 at 12:19 pm
  
  That’s a good idea about using my friends’ FB accounts – thanks. Thanks to my negative scanner, I’ve discovered a lot more photos than I thought I had. 🙂
  
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Deb says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:02 pm

That’s a very satisfyingly chunky journal! What a lovely record to have of your time in the RAF x

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1. Ruth says:
  
  June 9, 2020 at 2:15 pm
  
  I’m surprised by just how much I am loving this project. I’ll be sorry when it’s finished.
  
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Ruth says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:17 pm

Thanks. I think I’ll have at least 2 fat and chunky journals by the time I’m finished. I’m still writing about my Germany posting and there are 3 more postings after that. Then there are the other categories: friends, boyfriends, fashion, cars, music and cinema memories, how I lived, memorable parties …

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Alexa says:

June 9, 2020 at 2:03 pm

This is just amazing! How wonderful to be putting this together and having it in the family … How are you going to record the other categories – a chapter each? in time sequence?

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1. Ruth says:
  
  June 9, 2020 at 2:10 pm
  
  A chapter each, I think – similar to what I did with The History Project.
  
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