We’ve all been teenagers, hey I’m sure some of you still are, so we can all appreciate just how mindbendingly dumb that sudden rush of hormones and limited freedom makes us.

Thankfully most of us grow out if it and get to experience a fleeting moment of being confident, vaguely clued up and in control of our lives people before the crushing numbness of middle age sets in and we’re packed off to be recycled into food pellets.

This Thursday though you can relive the highs and lows of teenage existence  at an excruciating looking event, Cringe, at the Hoxton Hall. On the night those in attendence will be encouraged to stand up and read from their teenage diaries, baring their adolescent souls for all to marvel at (and mock).

Thankfully a long time ago I found my teenage diaries – packed full as they were with terrible gothic poetry and guilt laden allusions to masturbation – and fed them to the flames, so I can just safely enjoy other people’s humiliation.

The event is part of an ongoing project, Dear Diary, organised in support of the lovely people from youth charity Ctril.Alt.Shift. and as well as getting the public to embarrass themselves at the aforementioned night they’re holding an exhibition at Gallery Seven in Covent Garden.

On display will be a range of diaries from the cult (Kurt Cobain, Anais Nin, Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks) to the political (young journalist Dan Eldon’s visual diaries of his time in Kenya before he was killed in Mogadishu, Somalia at the age of 22), and the historic.

Finally whilst this all sounds great and we’d have probably covered it anyway, full marks must go to the, shall remain nameless, PR person who really went above and beyond the call of duty and sent us a scanned extract from her own diary (click image above for a larger pic). You’re a braver person than I and we hope your clients appreciate your work!