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 awake far too early this morning. I knew that my electric arm was going to be delivered before 10.00 am although not how long before so I'd set an alarm for 8.30 am just to be safe but I was awake at 6.30 am anyway. I couldn't really do much about it because I had someone sleeping in the sitting room so I just kept lying there thinking I might go back to sleep but I couldn't. When it came to 10.00 am I decided to get up anyway and in the space of time I was in the bathroom it arrived and was on the kitchen counter when I got downstairs. I was all prepared for the fact that it still might not be working but couldn't have guessed what was going to happen next.... it did work, absolutely fine in fact, all except for one small detail - the electrodes are the wrong way round. That means that when I want it to open I have to think 'close' and think 'open' in order to close it. The same with the rotation, although that's less critical. And I have to literally think it, in my head I have to say the words 'close' or 'open' when I want to do the opposite. I thought it was probably a bit like getting into the car one morning to discover that the brake and the accelerator have been swapped round, you could still drive the car but you'd have to concentrate like hell.

Anyway, it was usable even if it means concentrating a lot and I took advantage of the fact that I was up a bit earlier to go to town and get some more organic fruit and veg in because the organics shop closes half day Saturday and I don't normally even make it there on a Saturday. I got lucky in organics and scooped a whole crate of oranges for £5 instead of £10 because I've been in there so much recently. When I came home I lit the fire and had breakfast, yesterday's leftovers actually and then saw to the horses by myself. I had quite a lot of kitchen sorting out to do in order to get the vegetables I'd bought put away including dealing with the sprouted things which I took out of the airing cupboard yesterday and put straight in the fridge in their jars and trays. By the time all that was done it was time to make another salad. I did it by myself today, and it was a lot easier with having my arm back even though I have to do this concentrating business. It was still early enough then to go to Aberystwyth, mainly to get in gardening supplies because we used up all the seed trays we had yesterday and all the potting compost and there's lots more planting coming up soon. Since I was in Aber though I did go look in Charlie's Stores and got a new pair of jeans, a pair without holes in the knees and a few things for the kitchen which I'd been wanting for ages.

I was exhausted when I got back from Aber and lay down in front of the fire for really quite a long time, Lorna came through to get something and when Jade saw me lying in front of the fire she didn't want to follow Lorna around any more, she wanted to lie by the fire with me, in fact she wanted to push me off the rug altogether and did her doggy best but we ended up sharing it and the cat climbed on top of me and we all three snoozed for a while. Eventually I woke myself up and read the paper for a while, watched Casualty on the tv and then came through to make my dinner, which was easy because there was so many other leftover bits and pieces. Feeling inspired by other people's reactions to the sweeties I made the other night I then came in and made up another batch, but bigger and slightly different, maybe not so good in fact, but still good for raw sweeties. Then I watched a strange thing on the tv, a sort of social documentary about four single people in New York and their attempts to find themselves the perfect husband or wife, or 'fuck' or whatever it was they were after. City people are so different, I find it such an alien way of life now, even though it wasn't that many years ago that I was living in a city, and this whole desperation thing, I did find it quite sad and shocking really.


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