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 woke up remarkably early this morning, (well, before 9.00am) knowing that the fire was out and knowing that it was clogged up and I couldn't just light kindling on top to get it going. A quick venture downstairs told me that I was right and it was cold so I made my coffee and took it back to bed. At least it was warm in there. Then I was able to get up and clear out the fire, 3 times I emptied the ash box but it did go up nicely after that. There's still no wind, the fires just aren't drawing well, it's most unusual to not have wind here.

I really did want to avoid going into town today but I had noticed a worm on the cat's bum yesterday and two this morning, what I was really hoping was that Lorna would be going in and could get some wormer but she was showing no signs of waking up and I was sure that the poor cat had both types of worms and really needed to be wormer (quite apart from the fact that I don't really want worms in my bed.) So off I went into town and, of course, found a few other things I needed to do. I've run out of books again and so I went into one of the secondhand bookshops and bought a few. I seem to be eating books at the moment, I'm getting through at least three a week, sometimes I finish one in a single sitting.

Back home and the weather was sufficiently mild that the hose pipe up to the horses water had unfrozen so I was able to fill them up and the heap of horse shit had also unfrozen so I could finally finish off mulching the currant bushes. It's all seeming more and more important to do things like this in light of a possible "meltdown" in the year 2000. I'm thinking about that a lot at the moment. Really a lot.

Lorna had surfaced by the time I'd finished that and between us we managed to give the cat her worm pill. She did look ever so unhappy about this and we had to towel wrap her but she forgave us straight away, I'm sure that clever cats like this one know that they need the horrid pill really although they have to put up a bit of a fight just to prove that they are hard cats.

I've been working on a new picture. It's really 3 pictures, one of a misty sky at sunrise, a scan on my hand and a nearly bare tree in the autumn. It's looking nice, but I can't show you because I still can't do ftp. Abel Internet and British Telecom GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, please.

If everything does go pear-shaped on the 1st January 2000, then I have only 388 more days left of publishing this. Are you ready? Do you know what might happen? More on this subject tomorrow.


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