I started doing this diary in June, it's quite new. 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.

Woke up listening to the answering machine cutting calls off every 30 seconds. When the second person started on the second call I got out of bed and picked it up. Both were WIT related and involving more work. In fact the instructions on one told me to "do it as soon as you get out of bed" so I found myself drinking coffe and organising a 5 page fax at the same time. I hate that.... it's not exactly as if it was something life threatening, I'm quite sure it could have waited till I had my coffee but I just heard the instructions and started to do as I had been told. Lorna and Irene had taken the Landrover to get some staging from Aberystwyth so I spent the morning working on the programme and workshop schedule.

By the time I got my vehicle back (inevitably the trip had been more difficult and complicated than anticipated) I had done most of the work. I wanted to go into town but as I was almost ready to leave Lorna called that Princess was half way out of the field and stuck between two fences. Turned out that she had tried to climb up the bank and over two stock fences to get into lusher pastures next door but only got half way. Well, when I climbed the over the fences she decided that she was going all the way as well. There was nothing anyone could have done to stop her once she had decided. It was a worrying thing to watch as she could easily have been cut on the barbed wire or damaged a tendon or..... aaarg. Once she was on the other side we did manage to catch her, it wasn't easy because by then all she wanted to do was munch out and although she wasn't running away she was moving her head so much that it was hard to get the head collar on. She then had to be led across another two fields till there was a gate leading into the nearby farm. Luckily there was a woman in the yard so she let us through and out onto the road back to the house. The whole time Nelly was whinying to her and although she settled down a bit she was really quite lively to begin with. Seems like there's no serious damage done, just a few small scratches from the wire. So then I went off into town and put a big load of smelly traveling clothes into the laundrette. Did various shopping assignments and even did a bit of sensible bank stuff. Stocked up on chocolate soya milk

By the time I got back David was here turning the hay for the second time. I was despairing a little this morning when the stairod rains came but he seems to think it could still get dry enough. He might come back then and cut the reeds so that they don't take over completely. In the meantime we just need a bit more sun and a bit less rain. Would also be nice to have a few dry days for the WIT camp.

I finished off the programme then and the receipts and the feedback form and left a message for them to say it was all done. They've got mobile phones up there and seem surprised that they don't work. Point is mobile phones just do not work round here, there's too many hills and valleys and stuff. I didn't think for a minute that they would get the message. They didn't, there was a call from Petra later to ask me if I would manage to do it and I said I already had. We then had to work out how to get it proofed and printed but that arrangement was later overidden when Katherine phoned, not having even spoken to Petra or the rest of them and she ended up coming round at about 11.30pm. An hour and a half later and after a complete redesign of the workshop schedule she left. And here I am finishing this off. ( I was doing it when she called.)

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