January 5th 2016

January 5th started off by being woken up at 9.20 by the phone. About the same time as yesterday I believe. It was Joan, Grampy's friend, wanting to know details of Grampy's funeral. I tried to go back to sleep but it didn't work too well; I eventually got up at 10.

Mum and I went into town to do a bit of January sales shopping although we didn't find much. We stopped in Matalan first. It's just outside the main town area so you either go there first - if you have the car with you that is- or you don't go there at all. I tried on this white crocheted top. I kinda liked it but there was something about it and when I'm not sure about an item of clothing. I tend not to get it. Because really, will I actually wear it?

I drove around to Morrison's; you get 2 hours parking for free in there. You don't need to even spend £5 in the shop anymore. Found a nice spot nearest to the shops. We walked around to the local paper shop so we could place Grampy's death announcement in this weeks issue to notify anyone we haven't told and to give date and time of the funeral to anyone wanting to come.

I didn't really buy anything on this shopping trip. 6 rolls of Christmas wrapping paper for £1! Ready for Christmas in 11.5 months time... A cardboard Taj Mahal 3d puzzle, a 20p cloudy lemonade and a toffee crisp (which I think mum bought). I ate that when we got back to the car.

When we got home I had to bury my fish Pedro. I waited to see if it was going to stop raining so I wouldn't get wet burying him but it didn't look like it would so I went anyway. I got soaked but I managed to bury Pedro with Norman and Alfred in the garden. I stopped raining. As soon as I stepped back inside my house.

I took down our Christmas decorations today. It was sad. While I took down the tree I watched Hawaii Five-0 1x03 and a couple episodes of Friends. One of which included the famous Ross 'Pivot!' trying to get a sofa up the stairs.

I went out for dinner today with a friend of mine. No special occasion just general catch up chat. I had a 'French Hen Burger' it was garlic chicken and came with an Everest of chips. My friend had vegetable pasta with garlic bread and I bet nobody liked our breaths the rest of that night.

About 3 hours later I got home. I watched some YouTube vlogs including: Shay and Collette's 13th Wedding Anniversary, Charles Trippy's No More Chemo and a Bonnie Hoellein with Boston crying at the fire place.

I made my tiny Taj Mahal puzzle and went to bed about 1 but couldn't get to sleep until about 3.