Diary Thursday 11th August 2016

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Though I had no set meetings, it remained a busy day. Having seen what the town centre had to offer I now explored the village I live in, and met some of my friendly neighbours. One man had dropped his lanyard bearing a pass-key and photo he obviously needs to get into the place he works. One of my neighbours knows him and assured me that he’ll get it back to him. The village has a few basic convenience stores, a pie shop and local library that closes on Thursdays. After a while I got a weekly bus pass and headed into the city centre again, using the computers in the central library though they are very low and for some reaon they struggled to transfer my job online search activity to the welfare services jobs pages – it is a condition of my benefits to give them a log of my job searches daily. I ended up briefly using the job centre computers to reveal my job search activity before doing more shopping. I also topped for a single beer in a fairly typical pub, The Wetherspoons owned Grey Friar. I used my house stove for the first time and found it very slow – it took twenty minutes to warm up tinned soup. I decided to buy myself a cheap microwave oven and did so by the close of the day. I got home with my microwave and quickly tested it by making an evening meal, hoovered my rooms, and relaxed for the night with a CD of Bluegrass music – the soundtrack to the movie O Brother Where art Thou? One of my all time favourites. Youtube – Man Of Constant Sorrow from O Brother Where Art Thou? Arthur Chappell