Bought a new max/min thermometer - the old one fell off the windowsill in the night. £8.95.

Bunked off assembly for a wet walk. Better take Dean's umbrella back tomorrow - he left it in my room on Monday.

January 13th. Bunked off assembly again - found a nice new dry place to smoke under the eaves of the new multi-storey carpark.

January 22nd. Snowing this morning. Threw the remains of the speaker into the river - well flooded, full and very fast.

January 24th. Drove through a flood and came out alive. The landscape in the dusty sun.

January 30th. Brilliant sunlight and clear blue skies.

'Mild and very wet, although quite sunny' [...]

Walked back through town in the windy greyness of the first morning of the year.