Merlin showed me into his house, which contained many odd things; I'm sure they were made through sorcery. The first thing Merlin told me once we were home was that I am no longer king and we have a new leader, someone named Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, and her heir was Prince Charles, where their residence was at Buckingham Palace in London.

I said shouldn't this Prince Philip be known as a king, as my wife Guinevere was a queen. Merlin told me that the monarchy didn't work like that anymore. Also instead of having kingdoms, we have one kingdom, called the United Kingdom. Surely they could have come up with a better name. Anyway. From what I can remember they have four countries in this. There is England, which is the one that we live in; then there is this tiny country called Wales, where some of them speak a different language called Welsh. Apparently it sounds a load of gibberish. Then north from England is a country called Scotland, where they have a bunch of traditions and they tend to do things differently. Many of them also speak a different language there as well, this is called Scottish, which is a load more gibberish. Scotland, according to the news, want independence from the UK. Then there is another country, which is not part of this Great Britain thing, which I still don't understand what that is but it is part of the United Kingdom; this is called Northern Ireland, where you have to travel by boat or by an aeroplane, which is a machine that flies through the air and takes people to different places. They also speak gibberish, but they also speak English, which is good. I asked what is English, which is what we speak. So according to Merlin I am English which means I'm from England and I speak English. We also have this thing called counties, which he'll teach me later.

Right now I'm drinking out of this cup, which he calls a mug and drinking this liquid called coffee. When we arrived and I dropped my things on the chair, he took me over to the kitchen, which is very small and switched this machine on. He called it a kettle and he showed me how to make this coffee stuff.

You take a mug and put it on the table. You fill this machine with water and you press the switch. The water then will begin to heat up. I don't understand how but Merlin says it's a combination of science and mechanics. Then you take some sugar by using a spoon and add some to the mug. This makes it sweeter and more delicious, but don't add too much or we end up feeling unwell, or go incredibly crazy and never sleep. We then add a scoop of this coffee stuff from the jar and put that in the mug as well. Then once the water has fully heated up we pick up the machine kettle thing and pour the water into the mug. We then add some milk, we don't have to but some prefer it, and then use the spoon to stir it all up. We then wait a few minutes for this coffee to cool before drinking it.

So I'm drinking this coffee. It's nice although I still prefer wine, which according to Merlin, wine can be very expensive to buy, and shouldn't be drunken often because it's not good for us, so he doesn't have any. The coffee is making me feel odd, like I want to go and do so many things, which is due to some ingredient in the coffee stuff called caffeine.

Another thing Merlin has taught me, which for today is the final one, and I don't know how I'm going to do this but I have to learn for my own good. We don't have servants anymore and that if I want to do things such as eat or get dressed; I have to do this by myself. We don't wear armour anymore and we don't use swords. If this no longer exists then how do we protect ourselves from intruders? Merlin then showed me this thing called a security alarm. We put the alarm on at night and if an intruder comes in and tries to steal things, the alarm goes off. We then phone the police and they will come and take the bandit away. First of all what is a phone and secondly what is the police?

The one thing I did ask before I go to bed is for a bath. Baths now have taps on them. We twist the one tap, which gives us hot water; we twist the other tap, which gives us cold. They mix as the water goes in the bath to make it warm. Once it contains enough water we turn the taps off. We have a jug to pour water on our heads and wash our hair, and then using stuff from this one bottle with a blue cap called shampoo. Although Merlin was kind and gave me privacy like always, I had no idea what I was doing, so in the end Merlin washed my hair and then got the sponge and poured some other stuff on there called shower gel, which a form of soap to wash my body with, which I'm capable of doing myself. Once I was done I got out and pulled out the plug that holds all the water in, and saw the water disappear. Then I was given a towel to dry my hair and another one to dry my body.

Merlin returned with some weird sort of breeches and tunic, and something, which we put on before breeches called pants, which feel quite awkward.

I'm just finishing off writing up this note for this Wednesday. I'm sitting in bed with Merlin next to me. I thought it was wrong that we shared the same bed; we never have before so it makes things weird, but this is the only bed and I will not have Merlin sleeping on the floor, it's not fair! He's helped me with all this new stuff to learn and I can't leave him uncomfortable, so he has joined me.

"You know I just sleep on the sofa."

"The what?"

"The long chair thing that we were sitting on earlier."

"Oh. No you can sleep here."

"Oh ok."

"And Merlin. Thank you."

"Your welcome Arthur. Now sleep."

I then hugged Merlin and went to sleep.