Saturday I went car hunting around Ipswich and Colchester and ended up buying a 2004 Citroen Xsara Picasso 2.0 HDI with towbar from a dealership, as it comes with warranty etc. for a year (which is extendable). It’s only done 22,000 miles, so less than a 2 year old car would do even. I’m getting it on Wednesday.

Not done much Sunday other than organise Dad coming over to take the Clio back on his birthday weekend – Mum booked the flight and I’ve ammended the parked ferry ticket I had from before – no charge either, so that was handy. I also changed the car on my July ticket. Be nice to see Dad so soon again, and we can go out for his birthday with Nanny.

I got my 25ukp Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router today. I put X-wrt 0.9 on it and put it into wireless bridge mode so I can use it as a range extender or a “gaming adaptor” for my Xbox. It’s much smaller than my Linksys WRT54GL, it has better speed and range despite having only one antenna.

Work was ridiculously busy today, lots of testing/writeups had to be done by the end of the day or earlier, as well as having about six voice calls to go on. LW went to Aldi and got me the Scart switch we’d all been looking at for 6ukp. I sent my timesheet off too late to get paid today.

After my lovely return to France for two weeks, I’m back in England. Traffic jams, Tesco’s, not so great weather (although not as bad as Ipswich can be) and bugger all people at work, but plenty to do at least.

I left Mum & Dad’s about 8am Sunday and arrived at my place in Ipswich (after getting a kebab) about 8pm. I missed junction 12 to the N154 and went almost all the way to Paris on the A10.

I slept most of Sunday and therefore couldn’t sleep last night, had a terrible headache, aching and puking. I was up and out to Tesco’s to get some paracetamol, Lucozade and Lemsip by 7am, and in work by half past!

I’m still feeling pretty bad, although mainly just a horrible flavour in my mouth and constantly blowing my nose. Hopefully I’ll be better by Wednesday so as not to infect Mum (if she’s still coming) and Nanny.

Urgh, think I’ve got a chest infection coming as I can’t clear my throat and when I cough I get a nasty taste.

Just watched Barnyard, which JP will absolutely love as it’s a load of talking/dancing cows etc.