It was a good weekend. I think it was because I started it well. I knew that I was going to be quite busy and so I spent some of Friday night listening to the football and doing chores that really needed to be done but always seem to find themselves at the bottom of the list, sweeping the kitchen floor, giving the plants a haircut, really tidying the kitchen. So on Saturday morning when I had to be up and out of the house at a weekday time (8am), I didn’t feel I was leaving the flat messy or neglected.

I also realised this weekend how many of the things I don’t conciously do, I learnt from my mother, I guess it’s true, we really do turn into our mothers.

I have newly cut hair but I’m still growing out the fringe so am still dealing with the flick of doom.

Also I’m wondering if it’s time to bite the bullet and have my hair coloured every 6 weeks instead of every 12 weeks, the grey is becoming more prominent (to me at least) and it’s not so much the colour as the texture of the grey hairs that I dislike, all wiry and sticky up!

The rest of Saturday was spent with a negroni (ok two) and the football. England, unsurprisingly lost, but I don’t think there has been a boring game played so far and no 0-0 draws. At work this morning, someone commented that it was still the best they’d seen England play since 1996 and I can’t disagree although certain England players (ok mostly Wayne Rooney) need to buck up their ideas and Roy needs to address the defence and the gaping holes on the left side.

On Sunday, I had a lie in, breakfast and didn’t do my ironing.

In the afternoon, Ma and I went up to Apsley House for some of the Waterloo Festival, where we saw the Battle of Waterloo re-enacted with vegetables. It was a really good way of showing it and very funny. Wellington’s troops were represented as carrots because they’re easier to put in square and Napoleon’s troops were onions, Imperial cavalry were baguettes (ours were parsnips) and the artillery were garlic (Wellington) and spring onions (Napoleon), in case anyone knows what I’m babling on about and is wondering Blucher (and his Prussians) were an aubergine! Very silly but very educational.

Wellington’s forces

The French

This week is going to be quiet and busy. Busy at work, quiet at home. I’ve been working at an evening routine and it has occurred to me (with some prompting – thanks Krissie!) that if a bedtime routine works for small children, then something similar will work for me too. Actually, I know this, but like a lot of things, they are lessons that I constantly need to relearn, I’m not known for consistency when it comes to routine but this week that’s what I’m going for.

Consistency. The list is mostly the same, no screens after nine, making sure that I’m prepared for the next day (lunch, clothes, tasks etc), yoga and bed by 10pm. So I’m going to make that wind down hour my priority for this week.

Anyone else care to share the thing that you’ll working on achieving this week, whether it’s daily meditation, perfecting a recipe or doing sit-ups every day (all stuff I might think about in the coming weeks!) what is your week going to be about?