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A senior officer stopsto my cell to tell me that the Governor wants a word I follow him, but have to halt every few yards as he unlocks and locks countless iron-barred gates before I’m shown into a comfortable room with a sofa, two easy chairs and pictures on the wall

Mr Peel, the Governor of Block Three, rises and shakesin I assure hi I’d want to experience ever again Block Three, I adht improvement

Mr Peel nods, as if he’s heard it all before He then explains that there are five Governors at Bel oes on to confir is in place, but II’m about to ask why seven o’clock when the service isn’t until eleven, and the journey to Grantchester usually takes about an hour, when he rises froain just as soon as you’ve returned froe’

Mr Peel says goodnight but doesn’t shake hands a second time I leave his office and try to find the way back to my cell As I’m unescorted, I lose uides ht and narrow, obviously confident that I wasn’t trying to escape I couldn’t find my way in, let alone out, I want to tell him

900 pm

Once locked back up in my tiny room, I return to The Moon’s a Balloon and read about David Niven’s first experience of sex, and laugh, yes laugh, for the first tiht Two West Indians on the sah their cell s, but I can neither follow nor understand what they are saying They go on hollering at each other like a et divorced

I have no idea what time it hen I fell asleep

Day 3

Saturday 21 July 2001

407 am

I wake a few minutes after four, but as I am not due to be picked up until seven I decide to write for a couple of hours I find I’ more slowly now that there are so few distractions in my life

600 am

An officer unlocks e He asksover the end of ht and is still damp, but at least they’ve suppliedrid of two days’ growth I consider cuttingto return to the hospital wing is enough to put anyone off The experience of thatthemselves, because it’s not the easy option If you are sent back to the top floor you’d better be ill, or you will be by the time they’ve finished with you

I go off to havewhen to press the button so that the floater doesn’t stop

700 am