Weekend Report

There was a meeting at Bishops' House on Friday evening for people who might be interested in acting as guides and/or enactors from time to time. The Builder and I decided to go along, even though The Builder probably wasn't particularly keen to be a guide (and certainly not an enactor) - but I was interested to know what they had in mind, and was possibly willing to act as a guide from time to time.

So we met at Waitrose when I finished work and pottered about there for a while. Then we dropped in for some wine at Sainsbury's, and then we went to the Bishops' Coffee Shop and Bistro, where they do Caribbean food on Friday evenings, for an early bite to eat before heading to the meeting.

The Builder has decided that he definitely doesn't want to do guided tours, but is still happy volunteering to open up at weekends. I might actually volunteer as a guide once or twice and see how it goes. It's a nice little building and I might enjoy showing people around it - provided that they don't ask too many complicated questions!!

Other than that it was an unremarkable weekend. We went into Chesterfield on Saturday morning for a bit of shopping and for a wander about the market and the shops. We don't go into Chesterfield all that often - and we should, perhaps, go slightly more often. There are some nice shops, amongst the charity shops and pound shops; the market is sizeable; there is a lovely bakery on the market square which not only sells nice bread but also really nice, almost Australian-style pies. We were, though, slightly underdressed. The sun was shining brightly, the sky was nice and blue, the wind was a gentle breeze. It was quite warm in our lounge room with the sun shining in through the window.  It was definitely not in the least bit warm, when we got into town and started wandering around outside!!!

I was working on Sunday afternoon - earning a bit to put towards my GWT fund (which has reduced further and is looking more like a "bus trip to town" fund ;-( )  The only thing we had to put on the weekend report from there was that the vending machine had run out of both tea and coffee and was cheerfully dispensing hot water and milk - to the bewilderment of the students. We have run out of neither tea nor coffee at The Sidings. Rather to our surprise we also haven't run out of wine, despite the fact that we had put it by to drink with our slow roasted brisket on Sunday evening. There is some left over brisket for tonight. We'll probably finish the wine with that. Then it's back to frugal austerity while we try Very Hard Indeed to be diligent savers of money so we can party hard at the end of the year

Freyja, Simon and the hippos are in New York this week.  I don't suppose they are being either frugal or austere. Austin and Kaori are planning to move house at the end of February. They have found a place that is both slightly larger and slightly cheaper than their current place, not to mention more conveniently located. Tabitha and Gareth are recovering from the excitement of their night out together. In Australia, Ant and Jess have moved to Perth. Emily has moved to Townsville.  I'm not sure they could actually be any further apart and still be in the same country!!!