Maybe it was a lack of weekends for Dikiopolis that made the day so long and hard?

thesane and her fiancee are visiting us for the weekend, so it the improvement in weather was just in time for lots of walking around the city, although thesane may have preferred rain, as there is not proper rain in Christchurch. After a relaxing morning and sleeping in, we ventured out to shop. Well, look at things anyway. Bello, the men's shoe store, the bead shop, the wool store, sherazad... nothing was purchased. We bought lunch and an ice cream, and that was about it. Later, thesane bought a bag. However, we identified some shiny raised sequiny things that I can use on the sampler instead of importing pailettes from the US, and found crystals the right shade of peach/pink for the dress, although thesane has to work out how many she needs first.

My knee kinda aches now. I soaked it off Thursday evening, and found that although the strapping was a bit tight and very annoying, it was also helping and taking it off hurt in the same way (but not to the same extent) as taking the strapping off my hand that time when I broke it. The physio is quite pleased with how it's healing. The strapping has been replaced, somewhat looser this time, and it will stay on until next Thursday when I go back.

I also go to see the oral surgeon next week. Went to the dentist last week and was told that of my four wisdom teeth, only one of them is in a condition to keep and since there's no room in my mouth for its pair to come through, there's no point. I will get them out sometime next year; I don't have time before Christmas.

We had our team Christmas function yesterday. It involved going to the house of one of the partners, eating lots of food and general relaxing. Secret Santa happened and my person (people, since one of my lawyers emailed me from Sydney to say please buy his for him) seemed quite happy with their present. My Secret Santa gave me an incredibly trashy looking Mills&Boon by Emma Darcy (her 100th Mills&Boon book!), which was the cause of much teasing about it being too steamy for me. Having read it - and it really is terrible - I think I am going to take it into work and hand it to someone, saying it was a bit too much for me. Unless one of you lot want it, of course, in which case, feel free.

Wedding sampler has been started; the motorbike has been sold; the sun is shining; the days are long, but the work is not hard. Not at the weekend, anyway.