It's been a quiet weekend, which I very much needed after a tiring week at work.

We have a new forecaster started last week, who will be based with me at Sheffield, so I have been going through all the processes with him (and realising in the process of this that most of our existing processes are needlessly complicated and even occasionally redundant.)

On top of that I've got two fairly urgent projects on my lap, one of which is boring me to tears due to the amount of data I've got to collate and enter into our WFM sofware.

I was hoping to get quite a lot done over the weekend, but the sudden realisation that it's nearly the end of September and I hadn't done my tax return meant I had to waste most of Sunday on that. But at least I got a lay-in, eh?

The weather has now turned cold and although it's a gorgeous sunny day today, the air has a definite nip in it. As usual when the weather turns, my hands are aching, so I must remember to take my gloves home tonight (they are currently here at work.)

...Hmm. My boss has just emailed me asking me to detail my worked and paid hours. That sounds ominously like "we've decided that from now on you're doing a 40 hour week." We'll see.

It's probably because I came in an hour late yesterday because I was in such bad pain in the morning (mainly due to period cramps) that I had to take some painkillers and wait until I could stand up for long enough to make my sarnies. Then I forgot to work it back last night. Whoops!

I shut the kitties in the kitchen last night as they have been really restless at night, chasing mozzies round the bedroom, fighting, scratching to get in the wardrobes, and other noisy things that wake me up. It was so cold in the kitchen when I came down this morning that I felt really guilty. (I left the window open so they could go out if they needed a pee.) Also, they'd gone rummaging through everything in the kitchen and managed to find the remaining catnip mousie that I was saving for them. Thankfully they'd managed to find and play with this without breaking anything or making a mess.

Well, best go and carry on with my thankless and tedious task...