After a gym session on Friday Kris and I were all set to relax for the evening. This we did. Saturday morning I was out in the 8+ with the rest of my crew while Kris was getting her hair cut. The outing was pretty good all things considered, even if our coach wasn't hugely impressed. With two new crew members in the boat (one of whom hadn't been in a boat since before Christmas). We finished in good time so that meant that after I was done I was able to meet Kris in town for a lunch time date. We ended up going to a GBK and sitting at the back of the restaurant by the open doors/windows. After that things are a bit hazy but I think we ended up wandering around town and poking through the market before heading home. Kris had a girly evening with friends around 18:00 so I was left to my own devices with TV and books and the internet. Fairly pleasant, really.

Sunday morning we were seized by the urge to tidy the garden and house in preparation for people coming over to help organise the week we're spending in the south soon. I mowed the lawn and trimmed a hedge, etc. Kris took a good section of the lavender bush back as well as trimming a chunk for her own uses. A few hours later Cat, Keith, Cormac and Steph arrived, all with netbooks or iPhones or similar and with Kris on her iBook I felt a little silly with my 2001-era Dell Inspiron 8100. Still we achieved a fair bit of organisation (something we hadn't managed to do until now due to people being away or family emergencies) as well as Kris (and to a lesser extent I) doing some baking and cooking. I mean, she did pretty much all of it, I just did some mixing and washing up and other ancilliary tasks. Oddly, after about two hours or so I felt the need to lie down for a bit of a relax and before I knew it I'd slept all the way through to about 17:30. Some combination of the previous day's rowing, the heat of both days and probably a sugar crash left me basically comatose.

I was fine by the evening so we settled down to have a nice dinner of leftovers and watch some television together. Going to bed early meant an earlyish morning this morning even though we decided not to go to the gym in lieu of having a good talk about a few things on our minds. Kris had had a bad night so went back to sleep while I went to work. We'd have been going to the gym together this evening but Kris has yoga and so I've decided to go for a (hopefully) forced-pace road cycle with Cormac (if he manages to get his ass in gear). As it is I've been for a good run this lunch time in what was truly hot and humid weather. I detoured at the end to Cormac's work place to collect some bike bits (cycle computer mounting kit, brake blocks) before getting back to the office.

I'm going to spend a few more hours doing this that and the other today before I head off for an evening of either cycling or gym. Hopefully the weather will stay as good as it is at the moment. Work is quiet right now.