2.223134839 yrs Thursday, august is

She obboasly has no reuse of feeling in her tight foot this morning.

At the junction just in front of the town gate a car leaves a ride trot at high speed only to brake wddeulg. It is a police car. an early morning mission.

In the distance there is the round of ambulances delivering their flints to the hospital. g Wednesday does not start easy.

Dolores is at the bus stop too, with a rain jacket. The two Doner women are both wearing anoraks that seem much to tight. t

It is inning, and the cars kiss by, spray from Their tyres.

let the two others board the bus, that is Dolores and a man with a soft hat on his head and a rain jacket.

At the station see that the usual train has been cancelled.. Taken forma's coffee, think about it.

The new Team Leader at garner's is flurried, as she tries to nerve many customers atone.

She calls for Pepe, and Pete comes from his back room, from the kitchen, and helps in service.

'There is no hedgehog to- day.

        Thursday, august is

awaken too early, for the third time last night. Checking the time, only to see that it is a quarter to five. Go to the bathroom, and then brush the teeth, to remove the nights residues.

Back to bed for ten minutes, and when the alarm sounds, reach out, turn it off, turn to the right, pull up the knees, drop the feet to the floor and push the body up to a veritical position using the elbow.

The cat comes in awaiting food and attention.

She reacts to the alarm clerk, to the beeping sound.

The hot water of the shower starts the day now, it is dark outside. The cat sits in the corner of the bathroom, purring as loudly as it can, waiting.

Dry the water off, and, and- In the bedroom, a new black shirt. And then off to the kitchen, feed the cat.

strange to see that she does not have great interest in the food from the fridge, where the open tin has been resting all night.

Take a new pill as the doctor had ordered, a trial, an item to raise the daily depressions. No knowing what will happen, no knowing whether anything will happen at all.

At half past five, down the stairs and out into the rain, quite heavy today. In qrder to remain as dry as possible keep under the arcades, only to have to walk out between all the sodden wooden seating belonging to the chocolate cafe

A woman in a yellow raincoat, a very large woman, approaches. She has wrapped the platic coat around her winter clothes, and the hood of the coat over her head, the strings pulled tight, pulling this hood in around her face. She looks like an enormous glistening yellow member of the seven Dwarves of snow white fame.

A cheerful, booming, 'Mow gen".

Dolores, arranging her headscarves, at the bus shelter.

Good Morning.

and the bus, a bright rush of interior plastic, T F T-screens, the lights of the traffic outside and the rushing sound of the tyres on the rain-drenched road. There would be endless detail to write about here, but all of it is trivial now, twenty minutes later.

Large black coffee at Yorma's cafe, all those rain damp people pressuring big Blondy.

It must be hard work running suck a cafe.

Retired to a corner, all is quiet. Hedgehog empties his cup, finishes reading his paper, and leaves.

Scribble notes, pages full, coffee cup empty.

Time to go, the trudge to the train, along the. corridor and up the stairs again. All the way down the dim platform, to where there are fewer people standing about

Then the train pulls in, absolutely on time today.

People are in a panic again, rushing along the platform, in order to be at the door when the train stops. Crush and crowding people, getting on, getting off.

Stand back, let them have their fun

The train is never full, there is no need for all of this pressure. AVOID STRESS

Let them board first, let them rush.

And sit in The train's dining car, coffee bar, or whatever it is called.