Well I don't know: I had arranged to meet Marc and a friend of his out at Pape, but it is raining cold rain and C was a bit miserable on the phone from work and , well, I called Marc and kind of cancelled and now I feel much better for it, despite the fact that I do often cancel with him.

Today I had to cut off some men quite early and I found treating men like children strangely tiring. Of course it is the end of a full week. I said to Kirk H yesterday that I would like to work four hours a day and worked out going home that I don't do more than four hours work a day anyway.

Slept poorly last night as the bedroom was much warmer, however I woke not too tired and posted the passport application and insurance claim which Ccthy had filled in for me on Sunday.

We had had a very nice weekend. Went out to see Atonement which she thought brilliant and I thought cold and too effect ridden to be good. But I was not bored.
and then we rented Vanity Fair which had one of the same actresses playing Amarilla. I have not read the book and liked the film except for some over printed, or rather over saturated scenes which were obviously deliberate. I read the sinopsis on wikipedia and only the end was substancially different and the sexy indian dance before the regent. All the actors were very good and it was funny where a critic had said Thakeray had acerbic wit.

On Sunday we took the tree down and started our new diet of less cakes and candy. I might compete with others at work to lose twenty pounds first. Everyone agrees and I do too that I ought to take up swimming and or cycling which Cathy and I might do together.

A very special bath last night, but felt ill in the night. My stomach is disturbed and I frequently felt I would have to get up to throw up. CB awake in the night. Apparently she got up for an hour, had a cup of tea and talked with Matthew. Tired at work today, although I went to Leisureworld with old Mr BW, (in fact he is only three years older than me),and met the English woman who is director there. Liked her a lot and asked about retiring there myself. Apparently I have been qualified to live there since I was eighteen.

Google notebook. An IPhone.

Happy new year. I have the day off of course and spent much of it asleep as we stayed up until 12.20 and then I slept poorly woken by Cathy's snoring three times and three times by strange dreams. One almost a nightmare about work, which was odd as my work is not nightmarish. A nice conversation with my mother who is right out of it and both brothers who are well and fine. G says he will visit us when he retires.