day 9

8.55am: Have concluded that raw oats with cold milk are preferable to microwaved porridge oats. Like a very basic muesli.

1pm: Feeling decidedly undernourished.

1.10pm: Tell (very kind) man on fruit stall outside my work that am living off £1 a day.

He charges me 50p for:

one banana
one orange
one grapefruit
two apples
four clementines

Money left: £22.03

1.15pm: Eat banana. Body rejoices at reunion with vitamins.

1.20pm: After also demolishing the orange, three clementines and an apple, break out into inane giggling. Natural sugar high?

1.30pm: All fruit gone.

2pm: Feeling decidedly buoyant from fruity lunch.

6.30pm: Defrost batch of homemade lentil and cabbage soup from freezer and have with homemade bread. Feel like accomplished 1940s housewife.

7pm: Collapse on sofa. Crave a nice cold beer so much I can actually smell it.

7.05pm: Realise our sofa smells of beer.