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.

The fire was so dead and so choked up with ash and crap that I decided to leave it till I was properly awake and went back to bed with my pot of coffee and listened to a play on the radio. That was interrupted briefly by the postman who was sitting in his van beeping away on his horn. I put on a pair of jeans and wellies and went out there to find that he had two parcels, one quite large and one really huge which weighed a tonne. I didn't have any arm on at this point and it was clear that there was no way I was going to be able to carry both of them, but did he bother to get out of the van and carry even one of them up to the house? No, he just leaned out of the van and put one of them down in the mud and handed me the other one. I was beginning to wonder if he was maybe not wearing shoes or something? Well, anyway, he got the dickhead of the day award. I went back to bed to finish my coffee and then I got up and seriously sorted out the fire and got every single little bit of filth out of there which mean getting my hand in there and picking a lot of it out but it was worth it. I have to resign myself to several days without my grypher and decided that I'd better just get the split hook back on and get on with it. The socket on the hook is way too big now but by wearing an extra thick sock on top of the ordinary one it does work.

Since I had the hoover when I was cleaning out the fire I kind of carried on and hoovered all the old dust ridden spiders webs out of the beams and then the floor. That involved a lot of shifting stuff about as well and sorting out piles of stuff and removing everything from the shelves around the fireplace and cleaning the shelves which were thick with dust and bits of wax and even massage oil. That went on for quite a long time and I even had to wash a couple of sinkfulls of dishes. I also took the pile on top of the fridge and sorted it out, somehow the fridge had become the depository for things which really needed to be seen to but instead ended up in a heap on top of the fridge. Well, I sorted a lot of the things out there and then and the rest at least got filed in the appropriate places. That went on all afternoon and then Lorna came back from roller-skating with Lauren and we went and fed the horses and then I moved from the sitting room into the office and sorted even more piles and hoovered as much floor as I could find.

After I'd had enough cleaning I sat down with the Flash 3.0 book and went and had a look at some of the sample sites, my favourite of which was Poison Dart Frog Music, go there and check out the virtual playground. At some point in the evening I heard that the venue for the next fundraising gig that WIT had planned has gone bankrupt so as an emergency measure one of the local church halls has been booked. For me this meant changing the poster and drawing a map for how to get to Llanfair Clydogau because if you don't know where it is you might never find it. Details are available at WitWeb. I was meant to be going out to life-drawing but I didn't feel like it, I wanted to stay at home and read my book and surf and play with my html files and logos and things, act like a right geek in other words.


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