So I get home on Wednesday night, last here Monday morning, enter lounge and find headless rat on the carpet which makes me jump, yuk.

Put me rubber gloves on and sort that out, bag it and put it in the bin outside.

Put telly on, fire up laptop and sort out emails.

Go to bed, bedroom a mess so I get half undressed and vacume it. Get into bed, can't sleep watch film and finally nodd off.

Get woken at 4.30ish by Monty, god knows why, think he may have brought his latest kill in, but no, plenty of food and water, must just want attention. Have a wee as I'm up and go back to bed.

Keep pushing Monty off the bed until he gets the message that I don't want him nuzzeling my with his wet nose all the time.

Oh bloody hell what's going on now, Monty again, must be letting me know dawn has broken.

Damn cat!

So finally nodd off at just after 6.

Dreaming about something then a phone starts to ring in my dream, I answer it but it is still ringing, oh bugger it's not in my dream it's the phone next to me.

The alarm has gone off at work. It's 7.02 so it has to be the bloke opening up setting it off again.

Back to sleep.

Finally wake at 8.20, somewhat late.

Feeling very groggy.

So finally get my arse into gear after a coffee and no breakfast because I have absolutly no food in at all.

End up leaving the house at 9.15 after a few domestic chores.

Go to pick up part fo car in Shrewsbury, go through town instead of bypass, big mistake roads are full of moms on day trips with kids not having a bloody clue where they are going and old people who's brain function has slowed with age so they think 20mph is fast and keep stopping because of a car coming towards them may veer suddenly on to the wrong side of the road and hasten their imminent demise.

Oh and I have to go past the hospital, total night mare as it is a magnet for these old duffers!

So finally I get to where I am going, pick up the part and head off to see a customer on my way to work.

Some as yet un-diagnose problem with the car is causing poor performance, maybe brakes binding, maybe bearing gone. Supect gear box and drive shafts as well. could also be colasped CAT in exhaust. Anyway getting worse and pissing me off.

Finally find customer in Telford, total nightmare of a place, all bloody new towns are, not enough signs, ring roads and landscaping which means you cannot see anything other than the road you are on.

So park up and check in at reception, a massive company so I wait ages while the woman I a meeting walks 3 miles to see me.

Off we go into the factory, sort that out, see what I need to.

I think she is flirting with me a little, hmm, a little older than me I think, not a lot though, nice enough to look at but not a stunner, very cheerful personality though.

Off I go taking a crap route wasting more time as I get a little lost.

Quick sprint along the M54 and I find out that alarm was set off because blokes key was broken for one of the locks, he had to drag the admin lady out of bed to come down with her key, feel shit about it, should be me he turns too but I am 70 miles away so what could I do.

Oh shit, M6 car park again, it's the holidays, why?

Oh thats why, lots of caravans and day trippers with kids heading for M5.

so I arrive in the office at 12.20!

To be continued.