The weekend was pretty cool. I got up late on Saturday morning and wended my way to the train station to go and visit Andrea in Peterborough. She's been laid up for a while after a knee injury and a subsequent operation to fix bits of it back together again. It's taken her away from her athletics training and also, basically, having much fun. Dunk mentioned that he was heading up there at the weekend so I shoehorned myself in and there I was too. Dunk and I managed to coordinate our arrivals into Peterborough such that I was on a train which was one minute ahead of his.

Once we'd met up we walked over to Andrea's and, after a cup of tea and a chat we wandered into the town centre to have a look around and take advantage of the weather while it's still around. Andrea's been told to keep all weight off her knee so I got to push her in a wheelchair. It's the first time I've ever been out with her when I've been able to look down on her (she's over six feet tall). You also gain an appreciation for the road engineers/designers who put in drop curbs, etc.

After a bimble around town we wandered back via an AV shop where Dunk fell in love with an LCD HDTV. I think he's going to buy one after Christmas. We also dropped into Asda to get some snacks for the DVDs we were going to watch in the evening. Those were, in the end, Kill Bill vol.1 and 2. We settled down to watch them, breaking half way through to go and pick up some Chinese food, before we crashed out for the night.

I don't know what it is at the moment but I'm sleeping really, really badly. Saturday night was no exception and I was still very tired on Sunday morning. Bacon sandwiches and Tropicana helped, as did mowing all of Andrea's grass so she doesn't have to hobble about the place doing it. Once I'd done that is was pretty much time to go so Dunk and I headed to the station where he caught his train with about five minutes to spare. Good timing. Of course I had to wait about fifty minute for my train and, as I had a book with me I settled down on what I thought was my platform to wait for it. When I next checked the departures board I realised I'd been sitting on the wrong platform and I'd missed my train. Cursing my luck I got on the next one going in the right direction and after a change I needn't have made, got home.

I slept badly again on Sunday night and really didn't want to face the day on Monday (which should have been holiday). Luckily it wasn't a terribly early start as Monday was planned as my department's 'Away Day'. This was a chance for the Director to tell us about what's been happening and will be happening in the department. It was actually fairly interesting and the buffet lunch (TANSTAAFL) was quite nice too. I was home by 14:30 and able to go for a hair cut later on. I spent the remainder of the afternoon trying to get doctor, dentist, optician and insurance adviser appointments for the rest of the week. I was only partially successful. I did get to tidy the kitchen a fair bit and watch some recorded Battlestar Galactica and Stargate though, so it wasn't all bad.