Iesus Non Amat Me

It's finally Friday! Yay! I'm completely worn out from this week at work and am very much looking forward to two days of doing absolutely nothing but building jigsaw puzzles and watching Leverage. I had been thinking that I should be productive and do some gardening this weekend cos the plants are getting a bit out of hand, but then the sky decided to open and a ridiculous amount of water decided to rain down upon us today so that's probably not going to happen. What a shame.

It is a bit of an abrupt change in weather though. It was lovely and sunny yesterday. I went outside to take my picture of the day and ended up making friends with the neighbours' cat. He was walking up our garden and I thought he would run away when he saw me, but he came up and rubbed his face against my hand and let me stroke him while he rolled around in the sun. It was very sweet. I hope he's somewhere warm and dry at the moment.

So yes, my plan for this weekend involves watching a lot of my latest binge-watch, Leverage. After watching through The Mentalist twice in a row I thought I should probably go for something else before cycling round a third time! Leverage came highly recommended by someone on Tumblr, although it has taken me a long time to actually get around to watching it. At first I was a bit unsure, I thought it was ok but not great, but I'm loving it more and more as it goes on. So far I've avoided reading fic for it but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I get sucked into that too. Especially since the show has two couples that I'm shipping equally at the moment - Sophie/Nate and Parker/Hardison. I'm also being very good at avoiding spoilers so far and hopefully that will continue.

Last week saw the Lateral Drinkers come second in the pub quiz. Not a bad result, but I can't help but feel we should have done better.

The next evening we all went to a Bletchley-themed cocktail bar, which was a lot of fun. We overthought it quite a bit though, trying to solve puzzles and codes where none actually existed, and I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't get told what our cocktails actually were at the end. Still, it was a very good evening.

On Friday Paul and I went to the ABBA Super Troupers exhibition at the Southbank Centre. I had no idea what to expect but it turned out to be a brilliant little tour through the band's career via various immersive rooms including a 1970s living room, the hotel room they stayed in before winning Eurovision, a recording studio, and an aeroplane!

I then returned home on the Saturday to a weekend of jigsaw-building and Bones rewatching. I'm currently on season 4, so there's a long way to go!

I am still working on my Twentieth Century Ships list and I'm hoping it will be up soon. I haven't made any more progress on it over the weekend though cos yesterday Mum and I dismantled our old dining room table and made up the new one we'd bought from the internet. It's a rather huge farmhouse style thing that takes over most of the room! I'm really liking the size though, cos it's lovely to have so much space. The old table was rather slim and I often felt cramped using it. This one is a good size for jigsaw building!

My brother came up to visit us this weekend too. I think it was because today is the one year anniversary of Dad's death. It was nice to have all three of us together. We didn't do anything special to mark the date, but we were all aware of what it was.