It's been a hectic weekend.

Saturday was entirely taken up by fluffyrichard and Louise's wedding, in Kent. The actual wedding didn't start until 4pm (well, more like 4:30 owing to the obligatory bridal lateness :-), but ten of us got up very early and were driven down by Yasmin in a minibus, in order to help with the setting up. This was mostly quite fun, and the wedding itself was very good, and the reception was good too. By the time the clearing up was half done, though, most of the minibus crew had seriously run out of energy; at least, I know I had, and they mostly looked like I felt. Then we all had to wait for transport back because the minibus had been pressed into service as a van to take away the large bulky stuff. Eventually we all got home at times distributed somewhere around 2am, mostly looking like zombies; quite how Yasmin was still cheerful and chirpy despite having done all the driving too is beyond me.

At the reception there was a silhouette artist: you'd present your profile to him for a few minutes and he'd cut a small piece of black cardboard into that shape. It was quite uncanny how much the result ended up looking like me. (Since I cut my own hair using an arrangement of two mirrors, I actually see my own profile more often than one might expect.) Quite a lot of people had one of these done; I predict a sudden outbreak of LJ userpics. drswirly managed to confuse the issue later on by tying a helium balloon to lzz's head and having the artist come back and do her again, so she is now the proud owner of a cardboard silhouette of herself with a balloon on her head. :-)

Yesterday was more normal, although it still contained rather more household chores and stuff-to-do than the average Sunday. In particular, I was just preparing to drive a bunch of people to Owen's for the roving Doctor Who gathering, but when they turned up at my door they told me it was suddenly happening at mine instead. In principle this saved me some driving, but in practice the sudden change of plan left me feeling as if things were more hectic than otherwise. Odd, that.

Now back at work, although I feel as if I could do with another weekend immediately to recover from this one…

(Bah. I've been trying to post this to LJ since 10am, and it keeps telling me ‘This journal is temporarily in read-only mode. Try again in a couple minutes’. I wouldn't mind that if it had only been a couple of minutes, and conversely I'd have minded a lot less if it had said ‘try again in a few hours’.)