This weekend has been brilliant, just lots and lots of doing nothing. Every now and again it is nice to just turn your brain off, in fact it’s a shame you can’t remove it and put it in a glass of water by your bed as people do with false teeth. Maybe there’s a Dragon’s Den idea in here somewhere; as we devote too much time to work and leisure time becomes more valuable, we should have two brains that are interchangeable, one for work and one that only allows relaxation. On Friday afternoon you remove your work brain and put in your leisure brain so that your weekends and holidays aren’t ruined by thinking about work. You don’t receive work related emails or phone calls on Saturday or Sunday and this idea works on the same principal. The important thing would be to remember to make sure you changed brains back around, I would say that making it part of your Sunday evening routine would be the best way; iron clothes, arrange keys, wallet, and phone on the kitchen table, set your alarm, change brains. If you went to bed with your weekend brain still in you wouldn’t wake up until lunchtime and that wouldn’t go down well at work.

Yesterday was your average Sunday; I didn’t wake up until noon which meant I missed Just a Minute on Radio 4, assuming it is still on that is. A cup of tea and a shower was all I needed to wake myself up before going to my dad’s for lunch. We had a roast dinner followed by coffee and newspapers, (I know I shouldn’t eat newspapers). Jack had a mini-lunch made up of leftover meat, veg and gravy. In the evening we did another handful of episodes of Frasier on DVD, currently on the second series of the four we have so we’ll soon need to stock up. Without checking I don’t know how many episodes were made but I am keen to see it through.

Today I decided to ease myself in gently to the working week by doing nothing but catching up with my emails, but only got halfway through my inbox before realising it wasn’t going to be a one day job and giving up to write my blog up to date instead. The weekend entries were saved in draft so I just needed to edit them properly before I published them. While I was doing this I listened to a load of new music for the next Sunday Alternative podcast that I will be recording on Friday. Unfortunately, a heavy workload doesn’t make for very good daily blogs so hopefully readers will take the rough with the smooth and put up with a few boring blogs until the next time I write to a customer service department to complain about crisps.

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