28th May

I awoke in my own bed, which is a rediculous thing to say seeing as it was the bed I fell asleep in. I was working from home. The petrol squeeze made this a viable option, especially since I had to go to Exeter later. I told Koulla about this elaborate dream I had about being in Amsterdam. Amsterdam in dream land isn't canals, flowers and red lights, It was a fairground on streatham common. Bizarre, I know. Instead of wanting to go on rides which only charged dream money (euros), I ran around looking for a meeting. I finished telling the story and Koulla looked at me as if I was a 5 year old confessing to spilling milk on the table. I got out of bed to get on with my work.

My cupboards got delivered today. Big flatpacked monstrosities which barely fit into the room. There were two delivery guys who kept grunting as they put stuff in the house. How unoriginal. I suppose if they started oinking or mooing, I would have got a little upset so I put up with the grunting. The gruntier of the two men was bald. He looked just like the priest baddy out of "the Mummy". I laughed when he asked me to sign the acceptance form. I laughed because I thought about signing my name in Hieroglyphics and I pictured his reaction. I just put my normal name. As it turned out, I was missing a bag of screws. I imagine Mummy-man needed it to complete some Egyptian ritual or some shit like that. The MFI guy on the phone insisted that it was an honest mistake. I'm on to them.

Ade and Sini turned up for our road trip to Exeter. Three grown men talking about picking up chicks in another town (city) when in fact we had a completely unglamourous meeting the next day. We agreed to go in my car. Poor Sinisa was crammed into the back seat for 4 hours as we toiled our way through traffic to Exeter. I thought about my nice new tyres being worn away by the ungrateful road. I asked Sinisa to spread his weight on the back seat. I did not need any uneven wear on my new spangly tyres.

The hotel is a plush dive. Somehow we got upgraded to "enviable" rooms. This is what the lady called it; "enviable". Ade made a joke about putting Sinisa in an "Unenviable" room. The lady checking us in didn't laugh. I called Koulla to tell her how great the hotel room was. She instructed me steal shower caps and stuff. She didn't want the iron this time. She doesn't want for much.