Sunday

Very wet and likely to continue. I did 5 loads of washing yesterday, including jeans and dog walking clothes.... they will still be wet this time next week.

Last night I took the dogs out for an evening walk in the evening for the first time in about 6 months - Al;fie celebrated by going totally loco and refused to come back for an hour until it was dark - and then decided it might be a good idea not to come back in case I was angry. I was a bit, but had to hide it.  Managed to make a tasty pasta dinner without any tomatoes, I forgot to buy a tin of the chopped stuffed and couldn't be bothered to go back out - so I just made it up as I went along.

I'm going out to lunch later with people I really like, so I won't be doing any work later - I'll have to pack it all in this morning - but as I've woken up with a stonking and mysterious headache - I'm not sure how that will pan out.

The papers are pretty dire - and the BBC news crew are just making it up as they go along. They are lost without Egypt - I wouldn't be surprised to find that they are deliberatley stoking things up in Algeria, just to have something to talk about. If you see a camera crew and outside broadcast van today, don't let them goad you into demonstrating against the government - it's all for the telly.

I'm bracing myself for a very heavy week, lots of 'not nice' stuff to get through. If I'm still employed/upright/sober by next Saturday morning it will be a major achievement. I'm sure it's not supposed to be this hard.