This is actually being written at 9.20pm on Saturday, but I would have written this at the time it claims, if I wasn't ~500km away from home.

I got up this morning, at about 9am, found there was nothing to eat (one piece of toast for breakfast) and then I got dressed, grabbed my bag, jumped on my bike, and headed to my mate's place.

He had just rung his daughter, and arranged for us to stay there, down at Wallendbean, a couple of hours south of Canberra. We loaded the car, and took off. Stopped in to get fuel before getting on the freeway, while filling the car, my mate who I work with doing aircon stuff rang me, wanting to know if I could work on Monday, I didn't know, it depends if we are opening the shop or whatever, I told him I would let him know.

The woman from the service station told me to go away on the phone, stupid woman, I wandered away, still talking to my mate, I told him what was going on, and the fact we were on our way to Canberra.

I jumped back in the car, got off the phone, and we were off.

We talked most of the trip down, about things that were happening, ideas of what to do etc, we travelled until about 1pm, stopped off at (somewhere I can't remember I'll put it in when I can find my map) at Hungry Jacks or Burger King or something for lunch.

I tried to get my mp3 player going with a tape adapter, but the tape player couldn't work it out, and kept trying to change sides. I fiddled with it for about 10 minutes, and gave up.

At about 3pm, we got into Yass, went to the police station, where my mate's daughter lives, he was just letting her know we were here etc. After that we travelled about another 20 minutes to the house. In the same yard is the Wallendbean police station, and the house is the old station, with a decommissioned cell attached, that was pretty cool.

My mate's ex wife was there looking after their grandkids, they chatted for a while, and my mate's ex wife left. We looked after the kids then, they mucked around out on their bikes, and eventually settled down to watch tv for a while.

At 6.30 my mate's daughter and son in law, who are both police, came home for dinner. I must admit, it was pretty strange to sit down to eat a meal and chat with two uniformed police officers, complete with holstered guns on their belts. They were just on a meal break, so they went back to work afterwards, around 7pm.

We looked after the kids again, put them to bed around 9, they're good kids.

My mate and I chatted for a while, about his past, and what had happened etc, he decided to go to bed about 10:30.

I went to sleep not long after, was woken about 12:45am, when either my mate's daughter, son in law, or both had returned, someone was clanking plates around in the kitchen, I went back to sleep.

Woke up every few hours, the air matress I was on had started to go down, and depending on how I lay, I ended up lying on the floor. I was cold too, even though I was fully dressed (except for shoes), it gets really cold down there.