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A Day In The Life Of Gandalf The Grey

A Day in the Life of Gandalf the Grey
0825 Wake up because of a digging sensation in my skull. Open my eyes to see a flock of birds around me. Time to wash my robes. Damn birds think I'm Radagast the Brown.
0835 Wash my robes in the nearby river. Some people wonder what a wizard wears under their robes. And the answer is simple. More robes.
0930 Decide to start my long journey to the White Council temporarily being held in Rivendell. I hope I don't see my cousin Poofter the Pink there. I'm naturally distrustful of anyone who gets his fingers manicured every week.
1002 Stop to take a whiz in the bushes.
1013 Realize to my annoyance that I am out of silver pennies. Head towards the nearest house to ask if they want their windows washed.
1023 Some persuading and some threatening later I finally start washing the lawn for an estranged dwarf who lives on his own. Salinger I think his name was. I'm glad he saw my side of the argument. Not every dwarf sees how being turned into a frog can effect your life.
1043 Some silver pennies later I resume my journey.
1052 Came across some trolls that have turned to stone in a clearing, very much like the one I visited all those years ago. Think about how I owe Elrond a birthday present. Chop off one of the trolls little finger. They make a good paperweight they do.
1057 Wonder why I didn't bring ShawdowFax on this trip. Decide I could make a better entrance if I rode in on him. Shout "ShadowFax to me!" at the top of my voice and let off a whistle which echoes can be heard from miles around. Won't be long till he arrives.
1103 Still waiting.
1105 Still waiting.
1108 Finally here a clippety-clop sound. See ShadowFax slowly trotting around the corner. I ask him "where the hell have you been?". He gave me a look that I think is the horse equivalent of " you try and travel half of middle-earth mate and lets see how bloody tired you are."
1116 Shadowfax is finally ready to set off. Decide to feed it some oats from a nearby...