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Is it possible to plug your own website on your own website? Let's see. The reason I started the Where Did It All Go Right? site in the first place, back in 2003, was as a place to put the happy childhood memories readers of my book had started sending me. Once there was a place for them to go, it grew exponentially from there. Clearly, the book's reached a kind of awareness plateau now, but I still get emails from people who've just read it, like Anna from Aylesbury, who got hold of her copy of WDIAGR? at a bookswap in Phuket last December: "I gave them Robinson Crusoe and The Go-between and 70 baht, and got your book. I thought it was much better than Robinson Crusoe, but not quite as good as The Go-between." God bless her. And a couple of weeks back I got another happy childhood memory, from Claire in Sheffield, which I have just posted up, due to an unexpected day off. (Thanks, Lee!) It's a laborious process, in that I have to fire up a special under-the-bonnet programme, and input the copy and edit it, but there it is, I have created a new Memories page. I know from my secret software that a lot of new people are arriving at the website blog-first, and long may they continue to do so, but if you haven't checked the Memories section out, you might like it. I can always handle new additions to what is now a vast tapestry of caravan holidays, obscure cousins, scout rituals and colloquial snacks. It's here anyway. Auto-plug over. Shouldn't I be watching some football?