The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3⁄4

Wednesday February 25th

Bed early tonight because of my paper round. Delivered twenty-five Punches as well as the papers.

Thursday February 26th

The papers got mixed up today. Elm Tree Avenue got the Sun and the Mirror and Corporation Row got the heavy papers.

I don’t know why everybody went so mad. You’d think they would enjoy reading a different paper for a change.

I am an intellectual but at the same time I am not very clever.

am an intellectual but at the same time I am not very clever.