what with working Friday and Sunday I feel like I’ve had two starts to my holiday – and both of them have been gloriously sunny spring afternoons! On Friday I finished work just after four, then wandered around a bit past some of the embassies and squares south of Oxford Street, then went back to the station and treated myself to a smoothie on the way home.

Today I got done around three and took a sandwich and a chai latte and sat in the park, which was packed full of people sitting and chatting and playing football and frisbee, and I called my parents to wish them a happy mothers’ day, and find out what they thought about B when they met him (they liked him a LOT!) And lots of other happy things.

It’s so nice to finish work early and have some time to wander around town, and some sunshine to wander around in!