So back to work today, which is always difficult after a good holiday! The traffic wasn't too bad especially given that the schools are all back now.

I had quite a number of emails to sort through and then eased back in gently with a small amount of Plone work. That was all going swimmingly until I upgraded the development environment to the latest version, then I had an issue with some incompatibility. Thankfully a quick search on t'internet came up trumps - it was a known issue and there was a simple fix for it.

The chocolates I'd brought back went down very well, but there were several birthdays in the office which meant lots of cakes, which meant the chocolates didn't go down as they might have done - in fact I've still got about half a packet left!

In the evening Nikki went to her keep fit class and I to the gym, Nikki said she'd found it hard going, I had expected to find it hard going - especially having not been for two weeks, but it was fine.

We had to be in reasonable time because like I mentioned earlier we were off to Nikki's nephew's baby Lennon's christening.

It was being held at Pudsey Parish church. Now it's a long time since we were at Pudsey Parish (in fact probably just over 17 years ago - when we got married!) and how things have changed. All the pews have been removed to be replaced by chairs, plus the pulpit and choir pews have gone too.

I can't say either of us has been to a church service quite like it. Aside from the noise - people talking, kids screaming, etc. which must have made the vicar's job very difficult there were people just milling about - both kids and adults. I know they want to try to appeal to the younger generation, but for us it wasn't a particularly enjoyable experience.

The do afterwards was at Fulneck Golf Club. We had a few drinks and a buffet lunch, then Nikki's dad and his wife came back to ours as I needed to finish off installing Skype and some updates on their laptop. As these things always do, it took a bit longer to do than I'd anticipated.

As it's back to work in the morning , we got an early night.

We had a bit more of a lie-in this morning.

The weather was rather nice, Nikki spent a bit of time doing some bits in the garden. I spent the day sorting photographs from our holiday - there are quite a number of them, so it took me a good part of the day!

Again we caught up on some more television in the evening - nothing out of the ordinary...

Again we had another tiny lie-in this morning, and then, after breakfast decided to head to Junction 32 at Castleford - two purposes really. One to have a look in Ellis Brigham at the new season's ski gear, the other to try to get a christening present for Nikki's nephew's baby whose christening we'll be attending on Sunday.

There are some tasty looking new skis, but the clothing was a bit disappointing (not that we need any more!). Much to my surprise we did manage to get a christening present - from the Wedgwood shop.

We then spent the evening watching more stuff on the box.

We afforded ourselves a small lie-in, but we had to pick Indie up from the cattery and we like to get her home sooner rather than later.

She seemed quite content when we got there, unlike after we'd been to Munich when she looked as miserable as sin!

As is usual when she gets home she likes to re-familiarise herself with the place,namely by running around and then dashing inside and out!

Nikki went out and did the shopping a bit later on, while I caught up on emails, etc. that had arrived while we'd been away.

It wasn't the most eventful of days really, in fact it just seemed to pass us by - the of reality setting back in I suppose.

We spent the evening watching a number of things we'd recorded and that was about it.