Ditto

Dedicated to a very dear girlfriend &the  best diary keeper ever!!

Let me start at the beginning -

A few yrs back now a good friend of mine and i decided to go travelling overseas together, now Jude was and still is an avid keeper of diaries.
Me on the other hand, well lets just say that i wasn't all that diligent.

Night after night after trekking all round God knows where from Middlefart  to Buenuo and everywhere in between no matter how tired we were Jude would sit down at the of the day, open her diary and start writing. I would feel guilty so i would start also, i would just finish a "little quicker" than her.  I'd see her look over to me occasionally usually i would be finished my entries for the day &   every now and then she used to say
" you finished already?"
And i would reply
"Yep". "- quick writer" and leave it at that.

Then one night in particular when we had done lots Jude was writing for what seemed to me for ages and i of course had "finished" doing my entry for the  day & was aimlessly twiddling my thumbs waiting for Jude to finish so we could go and have a few drinks , it finally must have got the better of her & she looked up and said,
"Are you sure you are finished? You couldn't have possibly have written about  all we did today.." "Give me a look " and with that grabbed my book

The look on her face was worth a million bucks !!
At the top of each page of my diary was the date neatly printed
What hotel/ motel we were currently in and what country / town
Then one word in large print in the middle of the page

          "DITTO"  (refer Judy's diary !!)

Page after page after page they were all the same! Ditto, ditto ditto...
She just shook her head smiled had a little giggle and said
 "oh well i suppose we all can't be diary keepers! "
  So if any of you want to know what i did in Europe back in 2006 you'll have to read Judy's diary !

So Jude this is for you -
no more ditto's for me -

I am a real keeper of a diary now (well for this trip at least !!)

Judy & Me