22 Nov 75 Went to Pontrhydyfen. Lunched Bara Lawr. Half of Pontrhydyfen must have visited the house. Saw house where I was born. They've tarted it up. E still very ill....Must write a book. Means another visit to Wales. Autobiog should make some money. Good Yarn!
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
22 Nov 75 Went to Pontrhydyfen. Lunched Bara Lawr. Half of Pontrhydyfen must have visited the house. Saw house where I was born. They've tarted it up. E still very ill....Must write a book. Means another visit to Wales. Autobiog should make some money. Good Yarn!
21 Nov 75 Sober. Good weather. Over Black Mountains. Wild Wales. Stopped for sust in Red Lion fifteenth century pub. Black Mountains beautiful. Sheep cows wild ponies...Pontrhydyfen tomorrow.
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
21 Nov 75 Sober. Good weather. Over Black Mountains. Wild Wales. Stopped for sust in Red Lion fifteenth century pub. Black Mountains beautiful. Sheep cows wild ponies...Pontrhydyfen tomorrow.
20 Nov 75 Sober and well. Weather good! No rain! Talbot very dramatic at night with huge furnaces going. Overall feeling of grime however despite clarity of air...Wild horses. Faggots and peas lunch. Fish and chips dinner.
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
20 Nov 75 Sober and well. Weather good! No rain! Talbot very dramatic at night with huge furnaces going. Overall feeling of grime however despite clarity of air...Wild horses. Faggots and peas lunch. Fish and chips dinner.
19 Nov 75 Drove to Neath Castle Hotel. Terrible. Moved to 'Executive' Hotel, Aberavon. Pretty bad too but had a bath to go with it. Tonight a suite...Weather wild and Welsh. Had beer and felt very ill.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
19 Nov 75 Drove to Neath Castle Hotel. Terrible. Moved to 'Executive' Hotel, Aberavon. Pretty bad too but had a bath to go with it. Tonight a suite...Weather wild and Welsh. Had beer and felt very ill.
18 Nov 75 Oxford all day. Lunched at Bear, Woodstock....Terrible weather. Very wet cold. Froze all day. Visited Taylor-Burton. Bought £17,500 piece of land for Buckminster Fuller Building. Everything very shabby. Clothes cars etc. Students unattractive. Beer warm. Depressing.
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
18 Nov 75 Oxford all day. Lunched at Bear, Woodstock....Terrible weather. Very wet cold. Froze all day. Visited Taylor-Burton. Bought £17,500 piece of land for Buckminster Fuller Building. Everything very shabby. Clothes cars etc. Students unattractive. Beer warm. Depressing.
11 Nov 75 Heaps of presents. Can't be bothered opening them. Lots of lovely books including five copies of one. E as nervous as I am.
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
11 Nov 75 Heaps of presents. Can't be bothered opening them. Lots of lovely books including five copies of one. E as nervous as I am.
#RichardBurton100 🏴 The Chef has arrived with my Birthday Cake.
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#RichardBurton100 🏴 The Chef has arrived with my Birthday Cake.
10 Nov 1971 I am 46 years old today. I am sometimes surprised that I got so far. I always had the feeling that I would die in my thirties and in my twenties was firmly convinced that I would die at the age of 33. #RichardBurton100 🏴
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
10 Nov 1971 I am 46 years old today. I am sometimes surprised that I got so far. I always had the feeling that I would die in my thirties and in my twenties was firmly convinced that I would die at the age of 33. #RichardBurton100 🏴
10 Nov 1968 I am now 43. It's nine in the morning. The sky is grey but it has a look of turning into sunshine later on. Yesterday was wholly delightful. #RichardBurton100 🏴
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
10 Nov 1968 I am now 43. It's nine in the morning. The sky is grey but it has a look of turning into sunshine later on. Yesterday was wholly delightful. #RichardBurton100 🏴
11 Nov 40 I was 15 years old yesterday. Had 2/- #RichardBurton100 🏴
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
11 Nov 40 I was 15 years old yesterday. Had 2/- #RichardBurton100 🏴
9 Nov 75 Feel better but curiously muted. Leave tonight for London. Started but for once will not finish a massive book by John O'Hara. How that man wrote and wrote and wrote and he might easily have stopped with Samarra and no one would have noticed.
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
9 Nov 75 Feel better but curiously muted. Leave tonight for London. Started but for once will not finish a massive book by John O'Hara. How that man wrote and wrote and wrote and he might easily have stopped with Samarra and no one would have noticed.
8 Nov 75 Big pull out from booze. Talked to Liza on phone. Very sweet. Doctors all over me taking blood tests, intravenous feeding etc. I look terrible and feel diabolical...Really must now never drink again except possibly a glass of wine with dinner.
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
8 Nov 75 Big pull out from booze. Talked to Liza on phone. Very sweet. Doctors all over me taking blood tests, intravenous feeding etc. I look terrible and feel diabolical...Really must now never drink again except possibly a glass of wine with dinner.
7 Nov 75 Started antabuse. Absolute torture. Read books all day long and tried to sleep fitfully.
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
7 Nov 75 Started antabuse. Absolute torture. Read books all day long and tried to sleep fitfully.
6 Nov 75 Booze.
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
6 Nov 75 Booze.
5 Nov 75 Booze.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
5 Nov 75 Booze.
2 Nov 1975 E practically sloshed all day on and off mostly because we got into bitter arguements about wording of invitation cards re my birthday party. At one point after I had been pecuilarly destructive she went off in tears to 'Shen Buddhist's' room.
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
2 Nov 1975 E practically sloshed all day on and off mostly because we got into bitter arguements about wording of invitation cards re my birthday party. At one point after I had been pecuilarly destructive she went off in tears to 'Shen Buddhist's' room.
31 Oct 75 Felt inexplicably terrible last night. Slept badly. Actors' dreams.
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
31 Oct 75 Felt inexplicably terrible last night. Slept badly. Actors' dreams.
26 Oct 75 Chobe. Stayed at home. All went out on boat. Sans me. Just as well. All got sloshed except me naturally....Looking forward to Europe. First time since we arrived. Miss books - I mean mine - and children.
October 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
26 Oct 75 Chobe. Stayed at home. All went out on boat. Sans me. Just as well. All got sloshed except me naturally....Looking forward to Europe. First time since we arrived. Miss books - I mean mine - and children.
25 October 75 Read and read as usual.
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
25 October 75 Read and read as usual.
Anyone in the Oxford area, chance to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the big screen - November 9 at 2pm uppcinema.com/show/whos-af...
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Richard Burton at 100 - The Ultimate Picture Palace
Elizabeth Taylor delivers a tour-de-force as a caustic wife whose drunken dinner party becomes psychological warfare. Mike Nichols’ searing adaptation of Edward Albee’s play lays bare love and cruelty...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Anyone in the Oxford area, chance to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the big screen - November 9 at 2pm uppcinema.com/show/whos-af...
12 Oct 75 Went on picnic. Cucumber sandwiches on the marriage grounds. Cold wine, beer, champagne and cold chicken for the other. Coca-Cola and water for me. E still worrying me. So much so that I wonder if she thinks me a bit weird at times. She started talking oddly too now and again.
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
12 Oct 75 Went on picnic. Cucumber sandwiches on the marriage grounds. Cold wine, beer, champagne and cold chicken for the other. Coca-Cola and water for me. E still worrying me. So much so that I wonder if she thinks me a bit weird at times. She started talking oddly too now and again.