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.

I was meant to be having a massage today at midday but there was a note from Irene when I got up to say that it would be at 1.00 pm instead. Outside it was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and I felt the warmth on the back of my neck and felt that spring might be just around the corner. The frogs are busy in the small pond outside my back door, creating spawn and croaking away in their delight and the birds were in a frenzy of twittering. Even the horses seemed different, they were much more mellow than usual, they didn't charge at me like they often do but just accepted the small bit of hay I put through the fence for them and left me alone while I carried the rest of it up to drier ground.

Irene and Lorna had gone off into town, and I knew they wouldn't really be back by 1.00 pm and anyway I just wanted to be outside, I couldn't bear to be indoors when it was so lovely out there. I poked around in the garden for a while then got round to cleaning out my car a bit which I'd been meaning to do for ages, it was such a shitheap in there. Irene and Lorna arrived back as I was finishing that and the massage was renegotiated for tomorrow. Lorna went back out straight away with the trailer to collect a load of shelves they'd seen being thrown out and I helped her unload them when she got back. Then, after a coffee break we went over to Irene's caravan to see about the hole in the roof. A hole had been cut in the roof to let the stove pipe out and it was too big so we had to cut a metal plate to sit under the top section of the pipe and then fire cement the plate to the roof and the top section to the plate then go inside and fire cement several sections of the stove and light it to dry out the cement. There was still no sign of my arm and it was nearly 6.00 pm by the time we'd finished in the caravan. When I went back indoors there was a message from Peter to say that it probably wouldn't arrive until tomorrow now. This is getting a bit infuriating, it was meant to be here on Tuesday, I don't know if I can stand to do that whole wheelbarrow number with the hook and clamp again, I just hope it arrives some time in the morning.

My fire had nearly gone out while I'd been out there so I got it relit and lit the one in the other sitting room as well and then it was time for dinner. Lorna came in after we ate and we watched a couple of things on the tv but it was all a load of shit really and we turned it off. I'd just discovered that I was bleeding and was getting a lot of pain and needing a hot bath really. But first I had to check out CDuctive, where you can go and listen to music tracks and compile your own cd, I had to download the plug-in and install it which all took a bit of a while and then I stayed there for ages listening to tracks. It's not really my kind of music but I really like the idea of building your own CD. Then I had my bath and did a bit more playing with Flash 3.0. Lorna came by with some shirts she'd ironed or me and I asked her to get me a few supplies in town tomorrow since I don't know whether I'll be able to get out or not and got her to pull a splinter out of my thumb for me. Then it was bed time.


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