Saturday

Grey day for Grey Area. Nasty, wet and cold.

I'm taking the day off, I have The Dambusters to look forward to and bangers and mash later.

Friday was very hard work, I was exhausted last night. I went for a birthday drink with someone I work with - we ended up in The Clown, an infamous Hastings dive full off hard faced women and men with tattoo'd faces. It was like being in a Bosch painting. Came home top find dog wee in the bathroom and a front room full of kapok, one of the dogs having gutted the sofa cushions - it was like snow.

Really tired and run down today, been looking forward to a day of rest for weeks. I've had my mortgage statement and I'm down to 99k - at the most I've owed 115k - so it's slowly creeping down to something more manageable. The garden is waterlogged and part of the wooden terracing has rotted and collapsed - if it's dry tomorrow I'll try and fix it up a bit. I really need some more railway sleepers but I can't afford them at the moment.

Think I might have a lie down.