Bluehook's Diary

I started doing this diary in June. If you haven't been following have a look at the Cast of Characters which gives a quick low down on the essential day to day characters who are mentioned here...it will make more sense if you do.


There was a lot of snow out there this morning. I had one bit of luxury though because Lorna had said she would feed the horses today since it was hurting me so much to use the wheelbarrow. The sun was shining and I went for a walk along the road to see what sort of state it was in. I found that the fresh snow was indeed sitting on top of ice but that the ice was starting to melt. Those were exactly the conditions Hansi had been asking for the night before because it meant that the school bus wouldn't run. Therefore both kids were at home and when I got back they very unfairly pelted me with snowballs, I tried to get them back but how the hell do you make a decent snowball with one hand? I had to settle for ducking and dodging instead.
After a while I though the ice was probably melted enough to risk heading off to Swansea. I thought that by the time I hit a proper road it would all be clear. I didn't really enjoy the first part of the drive and when I did arrive at the main road there was a huge skiddy patch of ice at the bottom of the hill where the junction is and the main road was a sea of slush all the way into Lampeter and then right through to Carmarthen. Not a fun journey. But I arrived at the artificial limb centre in the early afternoon and at least the motorway was clear by then. I had my socket adjusted (better but still not exactly my fantasy socket) and explained some of the problems I'd been having, such as the ever-rotating pitchfork thing and Peter got onto OttoBock who promised to send a spare grypher down by next week so that mine can be taken in to be looked at.
The journey back wasn't too bad, everything had melted a lot more by then and I stopped off in Carmarthen because I was hungry and I needed to buy paper for the laser printer. The two mistakes I made were parking in a really stupid car park that was miles out of the town centre and falling for the "buy three, save £2.50" number. I may have saved £2.50 but I had to carry three packets of paper to the really far away car park in the slush.
Back home there was post from Petra waiting for me with a picture to scan for the next Wit event and after a huge amount of frustration with the scanner jamming up I got it in there and started working on the poster. I had a very unsatisfactory time and didn't like what I had produced at all. Anyway it was dinnertime by then and afterwards we played the thinking of words game and then watched a couple of programmes on the tv and I was all ready for bed then.


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