weekend update

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Katy and I went to Leicester for the weekend. We left on friday, after going to the gym in the morning and made good time to get there, considering how late we left. The weekend was ok. I survived sleeping in that tiny bed better than most weekends, which was a good thing, although my back did make its feelings felt by the end of our stay. We went walking to Old John in Bradgate park. It was a nice, if foggy, day but good walking weather nonetheless.

We also went to see Stu's new kitchen, where I had my first cup of tea in… years, really. Since his kitchen is still in shambles, really, it was a bit funny to see him get teabags from one room, milk from another and sugar from a third one still :) We also left with the most hideous smily-face mugs that I've ever seen, but for some bizarre reason, Katy is enamoured with them and so now they hang on a mug tree in our kitchen… *shudders*

Back at work today, and hopefully it will be an uneventful week. We need to sort out the paperwork for my Certificate of Approval ^† this week, as soon as we get the forms. Once we have that, we can finalize the rest of the mountain of paperwork that is apparently required to get married in this country. Gotta love the bureaucrats…

^†I don't know if I've mentioned it or not but we found out last week that since I'm not a British or EU citizen, I need approval of the Home Office to get married in the UK… You'd think that I wouldn't need to, seeing that Canada is part of the Commonwealth after all, but noooooooooooo. Also, it can take between 3 weeks and 3 months to get the paperwork filled out, and costs the nice sum of £135 just to get a small sheet of paper. Joy.