I've said goodbye to my friends, packed up all my necessary belongings, organised my room as much as possible, and taken my phone back to the phone people. It really does feel like I'm shrinking my world down bit by bit. Tomorrow I say goodbye to my family, and to Joe, who said he would come and see me off at the airport. Before I get on with the ( Read more... )

I'm so up-and-down at the moment...I usually wake up feeling fairly miserable, and think pessimistically about my present and future and thus continue miserable throughout the day. Being at home alone in this little village really gets to me sometimes. Then one or more of my parents come home and I cheer up, and I talk to my mother about everything ( Read more... )

I WANT TO GO TO JAPAN ( Read more... )

I want an Adventure.

Ooh, I'm going on one soon. How convenient.

(I would also quite like someone to go on an Adventure with, but I recognise that one cannot have everything. Still, I am hoping for company on my next Adventure :D )

I am feeling bright and cheerful because Joe just called me, so I shall now write the promised happy entry about London.

Highlights of London (since the last entry I made) were:
Monday - going to see Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. It's a wonderful little place, completely open to nature and built rather like an ( Read more... )

I am all alone ( Read more... )

1. Thank-you for a lovely day in London, Rosie. I'll speak to you soon, and I'm still hoping to be back home for May Week next year! See you then.

2. RIP Syd Barrett.

One of the things I like about being at Joe's house is that there's always music. If you're not listening to him playing guitar in the garden, or hearing his sister Rosie roughing out her latest song, you're bound to trip over one or other of them strumming chords in the middle of the hall for no particular reason. I still haven't forgotten that ( Read more... )

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I am helping my mother and father to do the washing up. My mother is berating my father for putting things in the wrong drawers.
Dad (in self-parodying vein): You see, the problem here is that we have no system. What we need to do is to put items beginning with, say, A-Q in that drawer...
Mum (laughing): What, and items Q-Z in that drawer, you mean ( Read more... )