{"id":500,"date":"2001-12-03T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-03T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2001\/12\/03\/where-did-the-weekend-go\/"},"modified":"2001-12-03T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-03T12:38:00","slug":"where-did-the-weekend-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2001\/12\/03\/where-did-the-weekend-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the weekend go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s back to work this morning, though I did lay in for an extra half an hour &#8216;cos it&#8217;s out of termtime now so the bike racks won&#8217;t be full.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend was fun, though a little short.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was spent first doing the normal shopping at Sainsbury&#8217;s followed by travelling to London at lunchtime to meet some friends ready for the &#8220;By the Gods&#8221; Xena fan club meeting in the evening. Although I&#8217;m not really a &#8220;fan&#8221; as such, I enjoy the show but I&#8217;m not fanatical, the bunch of people who Alec introduced me to are really nice and fun to be with.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I got rained upon just before reaching Charing Cros Police Station. The foyer of the Police Station is where we arranged to meet as one of the people is a sargent there. Off we went to TFI Friday&#8217;s around the corner where we had a good lunch, though the service was a little on the slow side.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the food was consumed it was pretty much time to go to Page&#8217;s Bar in Westminster, though Jo couldn&#8217;t resist taking us to a couple of Aussie shops for supplies on the way back to the nick (to pick up Maureen&#8217;s car).<\/p>\n<p>Once at Page&#8217;s, Maureen and Jo went ahead taking the copious amounts of sweeties she&#8217;d been asked to get from Makro&#8217;s by Dean into the bar whilst the rest of us queued outside.<\/p>\n<p>Much fun was had by all during the evening, including the Sing-A-Long to the musical episode &#8220;Liar,Liar&#8221; which includes a very amusing cover of &#8220;There&#8217;s Always Something There to Remind Me&#8221; which is nothing like Burt Bacarat(sp?) would have imagined. Then the &#8220;Techno re-mix of Zorba The Greek&#8221; Dean forced us to dance to was landed upon us, which was rather exhausting and in the smokey air left my throat rather sore and my voice non-existant.<\/p>\n<p>The drive home afterwards was uneventful, thankfully, so it was to bed at about half one.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning was spent in bed reading &#8220;The Truth.&#8221; This was not planned. I&#8217;d woken up at 9am and thought &#8220;I&#8217;ll just have a little read and get up at 9:30&#8221; then started reading. The next I knew it was 11:45am and all my plans for the day were out of the window. It was a good thing I didn&#8217;t need to talk to anyone as I&#8217;d lost my voice from the cold I have and the night before&#8217;s excesses.<\/p>\n<p>I<b>did<\/b> manage to wash the car and scrub most of the wax I&#8217;d accidently got on the plastic bits the last time off so it doesn&#8217;t look so horrid.<\/p>\n<p>At 7pm I felt a little tired so decided to have a lay down for a bit.. and woke up at 9pm! I watched a little telly, put the rubbish out then went back to bed and started reading another book as I&#8217;d finished &#8220;The Truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think I need longer weekends when I have social things on.<\/p>\n<p>My cold, although not entered the nose, is happily playing with my throat and my sinuses.. I hope it gets bored and goes away soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s back to work this morning, though I did lay in for an extra half an hour &#8216;cos it&#8217;s out of termtime now so the bike racks won&#8217;t be full. 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