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.

    

	Still awake at 5.00am several hours after turning off the candles so I got up and turned on the computer and spent an hour or so trying things out from the Photoshop 4 WOW book which I am learning loads from. It's a fantastic book, I love it. After I while I felt tired enough to sleep so went back to bed. I know I was still awake at 9.00am but don't remember much after that until nearly 1.00pm.

So I was doing my normal morning thing (yes, I know it was the afternoon by then), drinking coffee, reading e-mail and the fax started spouting paper at me, the first thing I saw being the WIT logo. I began to wonder about the sanity of giving Heather that fax machine. I got sucked into making various ammendments to various documents then decided that none of it really had to be done that very minute and got dressed instead. I'm not at all looking forward to the job of moving the heap of hay that would have constituted 150-180 bales had it not rained but it will at least be easier with a pitchfork so I went off to the farmers co-op in Tregaron and bought one. I was also very tempted by a huge rubber mallet as heavy as a sledge hammer which would be ideal for banging in fenceposts but settled instead for a hole dibber. Maybe I shouldn't have bought the biggest one they had as I have no idea whether it is feasible or sensible to go hole dibbing with one hand, but I just couldn't resist it. On the way back I stopped in at a farm in Llangybi which I knew had a surplus of hay for sale and was followed up the track by another 4 wheel drive with a trailer attached. I was hoping this would be one of the farm people but it was actually someone else wanting hay. No-one was in at the farm and she was desperate for hay so I helped her back her trailer up through the yard and round several bends to the barn where the hay was only to find it locked, which is unusual but given the dreadful hay harvest this year maybe they are worried about the hay going missing.

When I got home I spent some time tidying the pit up as I have a visit from Leon tomorrow. It wasn't all that bad, just a few heaps of papers and suchlike. Then I spent a while on the computer before going off to cook the dinner that I had intended to cook on Saturday and hadn't because of being in too much of a state.

Clare came round after we had finished eating and I fed her on leftovers which, as usual, there was plenty of. We sat around for a while and talked and then went up to the field which was lit up by the full moon with no cloud cover and cast great long moon shadows. The horses probably didn't know what was going on especially once Clare started chasing them around the field. They probably thought it was some form of full moon human madness and we could still hear them snorting at the top of the field as we walked back to the house.

So now I'm going to try and go to bed early because I can't do with going to sleep at 9.00am all the time. For a start I have to get to Swansea on Wednesday in the morning which probably means leaving at 9.00am. So it can't go on.

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