Good Times Coming Up

I don't have to work a full five day week for the next five weeks. Ahhhhhh.

This weekend we're taking off Friday and Monday to go visit our friends in Leeds.

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We've been looking forward to walking in the Yorkshire Dales, touring the gardens of a mansion house, and generally being outdoors. However, the BBC was recently forecasting sub-zero temperatures across Britain this weekend, in contrast to the 60+ degrees we're enjoying now. They seem to have changed their minds though, and are now forecasting temperatures in the upper 40s and lower 50s. If its cold, there will be a lot more time spent inside pubs I think.

So that means this is a four-day work week, and next week is one as well. The following week, I've taken off Wednesday to go see a play, Madame de Sade starring Judi Dench, with Grace. We were planning to go on a weekend, but Grace mistakenly bought tickets for a weekday matinee. No worries, we thought. We'll just change the ticket date. Turns out you can't. The best you can hope for is to return the tickets, with no guaranteed refund unless the show sells out and someone buys up your tickets. Great. So instead, we decided to both just take the day off and have a nice weekday in London, going to see a matinee play.

So, again, a four day week. The next week, has Good Friday, which is a public holiday. Easter Monday is as well. So we're going down to Bournemouth to spend time with Grace's relatives down there.


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When we get back from our trip to Bournemouth, we have another event. We're going to see the movie "The Fellowship of the Rings" at the Royal Albert Music Hall, with the soundtrack provided by the London Symphony Orchestra! Plus a choir. No Enya though.

So that's a busy few weeks! Then, we're into May, which has two bank holidays (so many!), so that's another two weeks in May that I'm only working four days. I feel positively French.