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.


Horses were wild this morning. They weren't at all forlorn looking like yesterday, they were just in a hurry for that hay. Normally I manage to get it up the field a bit out of the mud but today they weren't having any of that. They were both kicking out, mainly at each other but I still didn't want to get in the way of that, and charging about splashing me with very wet mud. I dumped the hay as far as I could get it and left them to it.
I had to face quite a few jobs I've been putting off, all "sorting it out" things, like clearing the mess in my bedroom and the kitchen and even halfway into the computer area. Then some sorting out on the computer and getting the stuff Clare wanted printed up before she arrived. I didn't really want to go outside again by the time she got here even though she had said she would help fix the jacking wheel on the trailer. Instead I brought the wheel inside to see if we could get it to fit back together at all before we went outside in the cold. I'd tried earlier in the day, my first idea hadn't worked because my fingers weren't long enough so I'd gone for another idea which involved gluing a nail onto the spindle to use as a guide, but it hadn't really stuck very well. However Clare has much longer fingers than me so we reverted to the first idea which was cutting a circle of stiff cardboard the size of the inside of the shaft with another hole cut in the middle for the spindle and that was supposed to keep it in the centre. Anyway, to cut a long story short, that did actually work and we then went out to the barn and got it onto the trailer. So now I can phone Lisa and see if she wants to move her 200 year old beams out of my barn.
Dinner wasn't too long after that and was followed by a game of pass the parcel complete with forfeits. We don't normally play pass the parcel after dinner, there just happened to be a spare one lying about. After that Clare went off for a bath while I showed her film to Collette and Jayne and then we all watched some awful sitcom and then Parkinson. I'm quite amazed at how many women and children can fit into my tiny sitting room, I'm sure I only thought I could seat about three people but there was eight of us in there at one point.


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