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 managed a whole 5 hours sleep last night. I had very nearly gone to bed before midnight but when I went along to see if Irene had got back and to sort out where I was to sleep Serena had just arrived so I sat down for a while and didn't actually get into bed till nearly 1.00am and then got involved in reading a book Leon and Mary had just given me, From Birth to Backing about working with young horses. It was very interesting and although I was starting to feel sleepy I kept on reading. Anyway eventually I did put off the light and after another eventually I fell asleep about 3.00am. The alarm went off at 8.00am but I was so pleased that I had managed to fall asleep before the dawn chorus that I was quite happy to get up.

We all had some coffee together and took a tour of the outside of the house, the garden, the barns, the field and the horses, then more coffee and it was time to say goodbye and head off for Swansea. It was a frustrating journey down getting stuck behind just about every conceivable type of slow moving vehicle on the type of roads that afford very few passing opportunities but I was only very slightly late for my appointment. A display model of the new 'grypher' device which I am hoping to take delivery off in a few weeks time was waiting in the room and I was quite surprised at the chunkyness of it. It makes an amazing noise when it moves and bleeps when it changes mode, it's ever so high tech. A little too high-tech for the staff perhaps. This is apparently the first time one of these devices has been supplied in Wales so it's a bit of an adventure for us all. There were rather a lot of 'technical difficulties' but in the end, three prosthetists and one OT did manage to achieve the objective of the day which was to establish that I will be able to control this device and whereabouts on my stump are the best places for the electrodes. I'm going back next week but luckily I think I can combine this with a trip to the day surgery unit on Friday. I drove home via Llandeilo where I stopped for a wander and a browse and via the timber yard to check out the size and price of corner posts for the fencing. They aren't cheap and I'll have to go back for them tommorow with the trailer.

Back home the answering machine was bursting with WIT related messages and I spent the next two hours on the phone and starting to work on various documents which had suddenly acquired an urgent status. I took a couple of hours off to have dinner in the zoo - 5 adults, a baby, a toddler, a child and a teenager, dog, puppy, kitten (on my head most of the time), cat. Nice dinner, total madhouse though. Then it was back to work till nearly 1.00am although now everthing is done except for collating all the different documents into piles to be sent to various places and getting them packaged, posted, faxed or e-mailed in the morning - or afternoon, or whenever I make it out of slumber, I'm intending to aim for a full 8 hours tonight. All I've got to do tomorrow is get to the post ofice, buy the corner posts, play the stillness rhythm again for Clare's film and Life Drawing after that. If there's any other time I'll start moving that hay, haven't actually tried out the new pitchfork yet so I have yet to find out what is the best way for me to manage it.

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