After some lovely lunch, I drove back to Newbury and did some shopping. Bought myself a gucci little halogen desk lamp so I can see my keyboard (!), an anti-surge power strip ("The minute you walked in the joint...") and a shower thingie cos the last one was starting to leak and squirt hot water all over my tootsies. Not the best thing.

Up to Reading for JonH's birthday bash at Illusions. It was quite good fun actually, and I bumped into now-not-straight-at-all Rob who was looking nice as ever and stuff. Cool that he's sorted - when I last saw him he was a bit, well, scared by it all. Missed out there, though. Incredibly yummy boy he is.

Lunch with Marcus tomorrow at 1pm somewhere in central London. We've not finalised yet but I'm going to pick him up on my way in to town and we'll sort it all then. Haven't seen him for ages - quite looking forward to it, actually.

I was thinking about my DS again tonight. I'm quite excited that I'll actually be able to have it for myself now. I say now, April, of course. I have begun thinking about little things I can do to it to make it lovely. I quite fancy a 2CV as well as a toy-around-town car but I'm not sure whether I'll bother. I'll keep Mildred for now as well.