I was in my office for the day today - first time in ages. In fact, I felt like a stranger, several of my colleagues have shifted desks and I kept walking past people sitting in strange places and thinking something was up!

For the first time in months, I took myself off to the shops at lunchtime - that's the beauty of working in a town centre I suppose. I went the 'back way' across a carpark and past the town hall and was struck by the wonderful colour of this leaf, lit up by the (very welcome after a week of rain) sun. It was crying out to be photographed partly because of the colour and partly because I liked the tenacity of it - still valiantly hanging on the tree despite a week of buffeting from the wind and rain that has barely been away from Southern England this week.

I kind of like the analogy between that and how I felt - lucky to be hanging on in there after a week where I have quite literally done two weeks work in the space of one. I have almost crashed my car (several times) through sheer exhaustion, seen David only very briefly and barely had a chance to see my gorgeous family of furry and feathery friends.

So that's it for me for the weekend - I've decided to rebel - I'm not going to do ANY work at all for my company, I'm going to concentrate on me and my family - I guess that means a weekend of sh*t shovelling then as rabbits and hens have not been top of my list of priorities this week!