After this everyone is locked up till 2pm, then it is either back to work, more lock up or occasionally association, with tea at 5pm. Other evenings we are locked in on the wing until 8pm and then locked in our own cells again. Through an ingenious computer system we can press a button in the cell to go out to the toilet. We can do this 3 times and a maximum of 6 minutes per go each night. On C wing a lot went on after 9pm, everyone using their 6 minutes very efficiently, borrowing fags, sugar and the occasional drugs smuggled in by the new girls.
People are very inventive and even managed to borrow squash through the closed doors.
Getting a parcel can be very nice or very frustrating. You are called to reception where the parcel is opened by a guard. You then see all the wonderful things that have been sent to you and then packed up because you are not allowed to have them. The sermon was about how God tries to make our roads easy to walk on. That certainly was true in my case, once on my way, God literally opened doors for me and Martin and prison life has also been made fairly easy for me.