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And finally this evening p’anther from Teacozy came round to play and we had some tea and then went downstairs and listened to music.

Best.

Well, I didn’t bother with turnips this week. I’m about more than making money, man.

At the moment I’m mostly about fruit trees. I’m going to wait a few days without picking any fruit so I can see which trees on the east side are fruit trees and which ones… aren’t. I’ll then cut the non-fruit ones down and replace them with nice pear, orange and peach trees. I’m thinking long term here, you see.

Anyway, today was Yay Day. In which the animals all said nice things to me – even Curt! – and I had to say nice things back. “Nice ears”, “cool trunk”, “shiny beak”, “nice arse”, that sort of thing. (Deena’s now proudly striding round Venture proclaiming that “nice arse” is her middle name.) The only animal not taking part was Frobert, who had the sickness and needed his medicine again. There’s something very wrong with that frog.

I’ve persuaded Curt to stay, which pleases me. Every town needs at least one grumpy resident. Nobody seems to be packed today, which is nice. I like getting new villagers, but I’m pretty happy with my neighbours right now.

Also completely rearranged my ground floor room… but I’m still not happy with it at all. Hmpf. Maybe I need to go for a whole new vibe, ditch the gaming/entertainment thing.

Well, Nook was buying turnips for 122b just now so I took the safe option and sold up. I could have held on for a bigger profit, but I didn’t think it was worth the stress.

Lily from Smyrna has moved today now that Robin has finally left. She says “lmnop” at the end of each sentence, which is… different.

Planted a few more fruit trees, this time in old apple spots. I think I’m going to make the east side of the river an apple-free zone, but I’ll check there is at least one apple tree on the west side beforehand. I don’t want my local fruit to become extinct.

Well, Curly’s moved out, but Egbert from Teacozy has moved out. He remembered me. I’d forgotten all about him.

Bought 350 turnips at 97b each. Now I’m going to be chained to my DS for the next week. I really shouldn’t have bought any. It turns Animal Crossing into something a lot closer to work than I care for.

My trees didn’t do too badly. About a 70% success rate, it seems, so I won’t be complaining too loudly. At least not until it starts taking me half an hour every day to collect fruit to sell.