In our weekly interview about objects, the soap star tells us about her six decades’ worth of diaries and the 27 (and counting) items in her handbag
Ever since she was a teenager, Giblin has been a faithful keeper of journals. She now has six decades’ worth – a collection she would rush to save in a fire. Here, the actor tells us why those “jottings” are such a vital tool for self-reflection, as well as the story of two other important personal belongings.I would be devastated if I couldn’t save the journals, diaries and jottings I have kept for the last 60 years, going back to my high school days.
They are a record of my life, and range from family activities and musings about my life growing up in Tamworth to my time at school, university and eventually Nida. There are volumes and volumes of my life as an actor – 50 years’ worth – first in radio drama, and then theatre, television and film. I also have musings about my experience of marriage and childbirth, my children and grandchildren, many trips overseas, my time as a corporate trainer and speech writer, and my experience with breast cancer, over 12 years ago now .
I occasionally look over them all and impress myself with what an optimistic and self-determining person I am.It’s amazing how much I can fit in there.
I have kept a large dress-up box of costumes, all of which were made by my darling mother for the various ballet concerts I performed between the ages of five and 17. My son and daughter spent their childhood dressing up in them and now my grandchildren have discovered them – they come in handy for school dress-up days.My husband and I did a massive house declutter after Christmas and threw half our possessions into a skip, along with, I suspect, this goblin outfit.
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