The Weekend started for me on Thursday night. Which means I was only at work 2 days last week! I wish I could say that I had a restful, lazy weekend. That was not the case!

On Friday, I went to Putney to meet Jo and Ms T for lunch. Tabitha is getting so big!

Here she is showing me her ‘mean’ face

I guess this is what happens if a 3 year old feels she hasn’t had enough chips!

On Friday night, I needed to clear the living room in preparation for painting it on Saturday. Until I had to move all the furniture and all the books, I didn’t think there was much in that room. I was wrong, I do have quite a few books..

I also had to deal with this. Mould on the external wall, I’m blaming the really damp year we’ve had, nothing, houses, walls, lungs has had a chance to dry out and this is the result. It’s an easy enough fix, wash with bleach, leave to dry, paint with damp seal but I wanted to get that done before I went to bed so that we didn’t have to hang around waiting for it to dry.

Saturday dawned beautiful and sunny. Ma came over about 10:30 and after some coffee, we started painting.

Amazingly we were done by 2pm. We then needed to give it 4 hours before we could move anything back. So we ate some cheese, I had a shower, I was covered in paint took the curtains to the dry cleaners and then went the dump and did some food shopping.

After helping me move the furniture back in, Ma went home and left me to put the books and other stuff back in. I did this with some help from my friends gin and tonic!

I didn’t get to bed until about 2am and didn’t really sleep in on Sunday morning either which is ridiculous. During the week, the alarm goes off at 6am and I can go straight back to sleep but at the weekend, I can’t! Anyway at about 8.30am, I gave up the fight for more sleep and got on with food prep and washing.

Sunday afternoon, was spent at the National Theatre, to see This House and my next book buying will probably be the Dominic Sandbrook’s books on Britain in the 70’s, I was (just) alive when this happened and I know the major stuff, minority Parliament, Hesletine swinging the mace around his head, no pairing, the Winter of Discontent and the rise of Thatcher in the Tory Party and Militant in Labour, but I don’t really know it, nothing more distant than the near past, I guess.

What was interesting was listening to the ladies in front of me during the break. To understand the play you need to know something about Parliment and get our sense of humour.  The poor ladies in front of me were American and a lot confused for much of the play. Which is better than the lady behind me who was convinced that the Queen’s Silver Jubilee was in 1974 and didn’t have the excuse of being from another country (it was 1977!). There’s an NT live of this play on 16 May and if you can’t get to London or get tickets, it’s well worth seeing if there’s a cinema near you showing it (even if you’re not in the UK, there are loads of places outside of UK signed up to do it!)

After the play, Ma and I had a glass of wine (or two) and headed home.

After a journey home that took much longer than usual (engineering works on the Piccadily line and no trains going through West Ealing – I’m a Londoner, I don’t drive, I am therefore obsessed with London’s transport infrastructure or lack of it!), I spent some time sorting myself out for Monday, I did what I could but I just ran out of time before bed!

It’s been a weird weekend that way, I’ve achieved loads and been very productive but at the same time I’m still behind on stuff. I need to spend a couple of evenings this week doing boring houseworky stuff so that I have clothes to wear this week.

That’s what I got up to. What did you do with the weekend?