Hello blog readers, I am sitting here listening to REM, my favourite band, these songs remind me of being a teenager - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4&ob=av2n

The samaritans were quite ok to talk to yesterday, soup kitchen was ok, all uneventful, I got a blanket at soup kitchen because the forecast was cold but dry but I was worried how wet my bedding would be from the previous night.

I went to bed down in my alleyway, no problems, my bedding wasn't too damp, but the night was very cold. I bedded down and it took a while to warm up, I am having persistant problems with upset stomach so I had to get up a few times, but I slept well for at least six hours, woke up nice and early and made the scramble to pack up and move.

I went to the tea stall and they gave me a sausage sandwich, the man on the tea stall keeps going on about how I should have a nice boyfriend, they joke to the customers about also being a dating agency and they take people's details, they keep trying to find me a boyfriend :-D I told them that as a rough sleeper, relationships are the last thing on my mind, but they won't give up talking about it.

I had a thorough wash in the toilets, I seem to be full of infection and bad, I have a cold, sore throat, cough, infected sores, upset stomach, I think this is called 'welcome to winter' for a rough sleeper, I was probably the same this time last year.