A quiet Saturday today. A walk to the bank this morning to get my 30 minutes in relatively easily. I’d left the house without a form and remembered about five minutes in, so walked back got the form and then headed back into town by a more direct route. I still had to do a quick loop around the town centre to get up to 30 minutes, but not the greatest of walks ever.

I got some very lovely and unsolicited comments about my weight loss from the rep at the bank. I’d last met her about a year ago, when I probably looked like I scoffed lard for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was very satisfying — although I’ve got no doubt that she was also angling that I should remortgage with them.

We also had our first lunch sat outside in the garden today. When the sun was out it was lovely and warm, so it was a real treat. I also grabbed my laptop to get a bit of work done outside afterwards, but the sky turned grey and it got cold quickly. There’s still a long way to go before Summer.

I’ve mostly been working on the new project today. All good fun and I’ve made progress across a number bits, but I’ll want to see what J’s done while she’s been away before merging code and seeing how it looks end to end. There’s still a lot to do and so I spent most of the afternoon and this evening working on it. We even ended up having pizza delivered, which is a rare event these days.

The other highlight has been getting the children to the hairdressers today. Lily has been talking about getting her hair cut short for a few weeks and as I was walking back from the bank this morning I thought that I should just get it sorted. I made an appointment for her this afternoon.

We dropped her off at three, and I left her to talk possible hair cuts with the stylist while Joel and I popped over the road for a coffee and a slice of cake (juice and cookie in Joel’s case). For the record, the ginger millionaire’s shortbread that they serve at Source is delicious! We came back about 40 minutes later to find the stylist still busy and Lily sporting a bob and a side parting. She looked delighted!

While it looked like we were going to be sat around for another 15 minutes or so, I bounced Joel into getting his hair cut as well. It wasn’t the transformation that Lily’s cut had been, but it was shorter — and as a grumpy old dad, that made me happy.