A great day all round

First thing was selling the Discovery. The guy called up at the appointed time to say he was in the village and so I went down to meet him. I had intended to run them up in the AX but they said their Vauxhall Zafira would be fine. But they looked rather shaken when they got to the top of the track as apparently it had grounded out a number of times.

The guy was rather happy with the Discovery and said it was better than he had expected. So after we'd done the V5 and he'd given me the cash, off he went. It was a bit sad seeing it drive away for the last time but it's for the best I think. It's actually rather a relief to not have to worry about the upcoming MOT. Mind you the speedo in the AX stopped working the other day and the exhaust is blowing so I'm not entirely free of car worries just yet.

Later on, met up with Will, Vicky and one of Will's old school friends called Ben and went for a walk near Snowdon. We went up a cool path with waterfalls, streams and old stone houses. The scenery was really spectacular and other than occasionally being pelted with stinging hail, it wasn't bad at all. Vicky slipped at one point and pulled a muscle but other than that it was fine. We got up to where snow was still on the ground and were going along a rather steep edge when suddenly the wind and hail got really strong, so we turned back, or rather Vicky and I decided we weren't going any further and eventually Will and Ben came back.

On the way back to Ruthin to drop off Ben, we stopped at a cafe in Betws Y Coed where they do really nice hot chocolate. You basically get a mug of hot milk and a cube of chocolate on a stick and you swirl it round until the chocolate has melted. Really nice. Then after dropping Ben off, we picked up Chinese and ate it round at Will's.

The only bad things today were paying a completely ridiculous £1.18 per litre for diesel at the Shell garage in Denbigh and finally losing the lense cap from the N93, which I knew was going to happen at some point.

Work tomorrow. Bah.