Me aged ten in front of a tree
Me aged twelve holding a sprig of heather
Me aged thirteen in front of the White Cliffs of Dover
Me aged fourteen behind a sign for Duncanston village
Me aged fourteen sitting on a grassy hillside
Me aged fifteen overlooking the Seine in Paris
Me aged sixteen in front of a blue screen
Me aged eighteen in a student’s dormitory
Illustration of a chick in a nest in 3D vector shapes

Duncan’s Childhood Blog

For eight years of my adolescence, I kept a diary for narrating goings-on in my life, and I typed it up with photos and maps (and drawings of birds). Many of those articles are excruciatingly tedious. Below are some of the articles that are slightly less excruciatingly tedious.

The date of each article is (probably) the date of events mentioned in the article, and might not be the date I wrote it. Moreover, some of the content is exaggerated or downright fictitious. Even my pen-name of Duncan Sailor is meant as a joke. However, some articles have additional notes formatted like this, which were added later and are probably accurate.

I have a newer blog for articles I’m writing as an adult. There’s an article there about how I made this Childhood Blog.

I also have a page of statistics relating to my childhood articles.

Illustration of a cuckoo in flat vector shapes

Series of articles

I divided the articles into series, since several articles are from the same holiday or school term. Some articles are not in any series, however.

Drawing of a jay in pencil and crayon

All 198 online articles

Articles that are not in a series are marked with a star.

Synopses and word counts are on the statistics page.

Illustration of an eagle in curved vector shapes