Hard not to wake up in the foredawn at Adso's so I got going up and early. Made sense to take a shortcut through the Old Forest, I knows a few paths there. Bloody great spiders but like most things if you don't bother them they won't bother you.

Made it to Newbury in Buckland, stopped off to tell Saradoc Brandybuck 'bout the troubles up East. Someone lost a sheep as I remember, wandering past the smials like it owned the place.