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Year View| Summary| Highlights| Month View| Monday 6 December 2004 (Day View)

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06.12.2004 – Monday 6 December – Cooktown

Morning

• Mum woke me ridiculously early – even before eight o’clock, and we went to town with Jean. I did exciting things like buy a new CPU fan, print out documents for fares allowance and a healthcare card claim from Centrelink, and took them into the local Centrelink office. I also went and saw Peter, and had a chat for a while.

Afternoon

• I spent lunch at Sarah’s, then most of the afternoon at Ricci’s, heading to the hospital after to see how Sarah went. Apparently, she will live without surgery. I then attempted to purchase custard and cream – but disaster struck and nowhere in town had any cream, so now I have a container of entirely useless custard and no cream to eat with it.

Night

• I bought chips from the wharf, which I sat and ate watching the sunset over the river, and went and saw Matthew until I had to go up to the shire hall to meet Mum and Jean.

11:50pm

• We arrived home.

3:54am

• I went to bed, missing Bronwen, having spent the past four hours on the phone with her.