Here A Dodo, There A Dodo...

 Whilst looking for something else last week, I discovered my 2006 DodoPad. This amazing "memo-doodle-engage-diary-message-ment book" was first devised in 1965 by Sir John Verney [an eccentric bayonet, soldier, writer and illustrator]
I used mine as a calendar and to-do list through the year, then as a scrapbook for clippings and cards and recipes. "I'd forgotten this, **I wonder if they still make them?" I mused, as I read again instructions for making play dough in the microwave, a thank you card from an old friend, a list of "What to pack for a weekend away" and a brilliant article by Rabbi Jonathan Sachs on Assisted Dying. Wildly eclectic ephemera. I will keep the Rabbi's wise words, but much can go into recycling. Here are a few of the pages, with my scribbles and clippings, and the Dodo's doodles...

At the Museum on Friday we saw this fabulous automaton "The Last Dodo". A crew of sailors banging their knives and forks as the captain prepares to carve the roast bird. "I have a notebook called a DodoPad" I told Julian. "It was my diary in 2006 - and I found it again only last week..." 

Then in a charity shop in Lowestoft, there was a sign "10 books for £1 unless otherwise priced" - and on the bottom shelf was a Dodo book [labelled £1] Would you believe it! Unlike the regular ringbound diaries, this was a looseleaf folder dated 2011 - and unused. I suspect it was a gift, which had finally been decluttered. 
It is a Women's Wellness Logbook, with sections on health, exercise, weight, relaxation, etc. Each section has a pocket for cards etc, and there are charts to fill in [food diary, weight loss tracker etc] as well as lots of blank pages with a dodo logo in the corner. I may not use this specifically as a wellness tracker, more as a general notebook.

I have almost filled up the notes and scribbles book I have been using for the last 6 months - a French school timetable. [**yes, they do still make DodoPads. and more besides]
Have you ever used a DodoPad?
Did you enjoy it?