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.

I thought I'd woken up at 1.10pm, which didn't surprise me as I had still been awake at 6.00am. However, after a dose of caffeine I realised that it had actually been 11.10am, which meant I had plenty time to go to Aberystwyth on a long put off shopping trip. Aberystwyth is the nearest town of any size (Lampeter being a T junction that calls itself a Market Town). Shopping is amazingly time consuming. I got a lot, but not all of the things I wanted. Ok, here's what I bought:

• an air matress and pillow... not that I'm getting to be a soft camper, but the air matress actually takes up less space than the almost useless roll mat.
• a very good cd, click on the picture to buy it...highly recomended mix of African and Celtic music and another one for my ma.
• a new small rucksack...daypack, whatever you call it, because the zip had gone on my other one
• a piece of carpet, a gas bottle and a jubilee clip for Loey
• .net magazine
• notebooks and pens for the dead tree edition of this diary while I'm away
• The Big Issue Magazine.... sorry they don't have a website, it's a weekly sold on the streets by homeless people

I also had a look at a digital video camera, which is completely useless to me because it has a hand grip on the right and all controls on the right. The salesman was, however, very enthusiastic and wanted me to come back another day with more than 5 minutes to spare till closing time and he would phone all the manufacturers and see what he could find for me. Maybe I will, although I don't share his optimism.

I came home with only an hour to spare in which to cook dinner but found Irene was already doing it as her mother was visiting and had to leave by a certain time to catch a train. That was fine by me so we agreed to swap and I'll do Irene's shift tomorrow. What with the five of us who live here, Irene's mum, Loey the garden dweller and Serrena who seems to have taken up residence in the sitting room (not that I'm complaing, she did my washup duties tonight) there were 8 of us round the table. If this carries on I'll have to get a bigger table.

Ok, don't ask me why but todays little obsession was tractors. Click on the picture to hear a fantastic sound.

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