I got up early so that I could view a room share, because the girl started work at 10.30. The house is nice, but I would be sharing the room with a boy when I'd prefer not to, and the house is a bit too centrally located (I'm enjoying having to walk lots at the moment).

I picked up my laptop and started writing up the 3 weeks worth of my blog I'd handwritten. Alice has decided to try and find a care agency job elsewhere in our spare week before the new Hogs Breath opens, since she doesn't really like it here.

We went for a walk into town, and had a look round the condom novelty shop, and also the Turkish shisha cafe which looks like it sells delicious balaclava and sweets. I brought some tahini from a Turkish supermarket which is supposed to be the finest so I'm excited to try that.

I had a look round the flat I liked the sound of from the gumtree ad- there's 3 Germans (who I presumed to be girls, but turned out to be boys) who are students and an Australian girl, Bre, who would be my roomie. It was still quite central but I really liked it- I have to see if they want me now.

Alice picked up a leaflet in the vegetarian buffet restaurant for a Hare Krishna meeting where you are provided with a free veggie feast, so we went along to that. They were extremely welcoming and interested, one of the church men donated us both a 'chant yourself happy' book. We did feel very silly when we had to join in the chanting; 'Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Hare, Krishna Krishna, Hare Roma, Hare Roma, Roma Roma, Hare Hare'- it seemed to go on forever but somehow they all seemed to enjoy it still. It was a good day to go since it was Krishna's wife's birthday so it was even more of a celebration than usual. They put on a play to tell the story f how Krishna made her not blind anymore and a woman did a dance to demonstrate how beautiful she was. A white middle class family turned up and the son got really into it- it seemed like his parents had come along to see what their son's new found religion was all about.

The feast really was a feast and made all the chanting worth it- rice, vegetable curry, Dahl, salad, homemade lemonade (I think, that or really nice lemon squash), sweets, rice pudding, cakes- in fact the desserts seemed to never end!