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.

    

Another nice looking day outside but no time for fencing really even though David had arrived and was up in the field getting more posts stuck in. Besides, after yesterday, I knew I had to leave it for a day, at least. I had to get into town and post the newsletter off and get to a chemist. After I'd been out of bed for an hour and still felt like I was never going to wake up properly I decided that I shouldn't really be driving. Lorna had run out of petrol and needed me to get her some before she went out anyway so I asked her to drive into town. We got it all done very quickly and got a load of coal from the garage because we're running out and the yard can't deliver till Thursday.

Back home I got the fire on and spent a lot of the afternnon just organising what work I have to do for WIT as that has all got a bit behind what with other jobs to do and having this poxy surgery. I had lots of different bits of paper with other people's indecipherable handwriting to be transcribed, notes on the computer, lists of things with no apparent purpose etc., all of which had to be translated into an actual list of jobs to do. In beween that I was talking to Serena who might fancy living in the small barn now that Loey has gone and about insulating the roof and about stoves and all that sort of stuff and seeing to David who thought he had finished the fencing, although he had left half the orchard undone and had then transfered nearly all the remaining posts up the field to start work on the training ring. He seemed very enthusiastic about this ring and was all set to start doing it.... the wrong size. Now I have to persuade him to finish the orchard first before he uses up all the posts on the ring in the meantime. I think I'll have to go and get a few more posts as well. Anyway he decided to go off and get something to eat and come back later when I had worked out exactly how many posts would be needed. The engineer from BT was also here and attempted to fix the phone line from inside the house before setting off into the fields to try and find the source of the problem. He did come back some time later to report that he had found it rubbing against a tree and had quite a lot of difficulty fixing it because the telephone poles were so old in that field they had been condemned and so he couldn't climb them. I didn't ask for the detailed explanation of how he did manage to fix it.

After all the people had gone and my WIT workload was sorted out I even managed to complete one of the jobs on the list before I fell asleep on the floor in front of the fire. I don't know how logn I slept but it had got dark when I was woken up first by screaming children noises and then by piano noises interacting badly with what was playing on my stereo. At that point I gave up on trying to be quiet and peacefull in that room and went to the only place where I can always get quiet which is in the bath. Even in there I had about three visitors but at least I couldn't hear all the noise.

After the bath we had a music rehearsal scheduled and everyone got going while I was talking to Heather on the phone, straightening out a few of my questions about WIT funding and getting a few new jobs to go on the list. Then I joined the music for a while and we got through the first few rhythms before everybody had had enough. I was very glad of this as I was having trouble just finding the strength to hold up the rainstick. That rainstick has never felt so heavy. I will be ever so glad when I stop feeling quite so pathetic

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