Finally....

Some days off.......

Street duties has finished (well, sort of, but that's another story). I have three days off! Very tempted to spend most of it sleeping.

However, tomorrow will be spent tidying for an influx of Colchesterites heading this way at the weekend. I also need to go round some bike shops to find a new inner tube for my poor battered commuter bike which has a slightly odd wheel size. It has done well, this bike- a good 5 years of being left out in all weathers, coping with Matt sitting on the back (although that did buckle a wheel), being abandoned at the station for 14 hours at a time.

I am however spending about as much as it cost in the first place every year to keep it going. I will probably try and buy a "new" second hand mountain bike fairly soon. I need something a touch more robust than the racery / commuter type thing I have at the moment. It was a tad annoying to be cycling up the station approach and have the rear wheel collapse.

Bec has her usual small mountain of books to mark and other assorted schoolwork tasks to plough through. It will be nice to go back on to 12 hr shifts as that means 3 out of 4 weeks I'll have some days off midweek and so be able to tidy up and do dinner etc. At the moment we don't seem to have enough time to do decent meals- I tell you, now we've got into doing fresh properly prepared nosh going back to sauce jars is quite disappointing!

So Monday I'm back on response team hours and for the most part response team work. There is a slight variation in that I've got to tutor one of the street duty Pc's who needs extra help for the next five weeks so it won't quite be normal work for a little while. But I am looking forward to going back. Will doubtless get a fair amount of abuse from everyone else on my team for being away for the last 4 months!