Belated happy birthday to Beau! Sorry you're still feeling poorly LG&T, but glad you managed to have a nice weekend anyway.
Hope your family are recovering MKG.
S's party went really well, although I felt like a scullery maid for the day and by midnight when I sat down, I realised I couldn't get up again. Hip/ pelvis went out and I couldn't put any weight on my right foot. Good thing about that was that DH got his act together and looked after A all Sunday and Monday and I didn't get out of my pyjamas except to go to dinner at a client's house on Sunday night. Hurrah! Lovely rest in the end and back/ hip is better. We do it all again on Sunday for A, except we have DH's parents staying for the weekend too. Not that they're any trouble, but it is extra work. Mind you, DH's dad is going to try and fix some plumbing "issues" we have so they earn their keep.
I am on the warpath today. I discovered on Sunday that the burglar has been using my Oyster card. (Electronic ticket for London Transport for the uninitiated...) Only remembered it was in wallet when I got an email from Transport for London to say the auto-payment hadn't gone through. This was, of course, because I'd cancelled all the cards in my wallet. Anyway, looked at the journey history online and it looks to me like the burglar bloody well got the bus home at 5.40am after robbing our house and then carried on using the card to and from an area very near where we live. Updated the payment details, because in my naiveté, I thought the police might actually be interested in following this person's movements and catching said criminal on CCTV - possibly even with our bag of "swag" on the bus. (They took the bag for Quinny Zapp to put the stuff in so it's quite distinctive.) Anyway, I rang the main number for police in the borough on Sunday and was told that I'd need to speak to the investigations unit and they were in on Monday and was given their direct number. Phoned on Monday to be told that (a) I had no business calling the investigations unit directly as they didn't take calls from the public and (b) I would have to report the fraudulent use of the card as a separate crime. Tried to explain that I was calling to give them evidence in a burglary, not report a new crime and was told that I'd have to give the other crime reference when reporting the new crime so they could link them if they thought it was appropriate. WTF??? Was convinced this was a mistake and rang the main borough number again and was told that no, it wasn't a new crime but I'd need to speak to Transport for London to get it investigated. I assumed she meant the British Transport Police, but no, it was just Transport for London, the company that run the Oyster card system and they were closed anyway. I know burglary probably isn't considered to be serious crime, but I'm trying to hand over evidence that could very well make it easy to catch this person and therefore they could possibly solve at least two crimes (there was at least one other burglary on our road that night). I mean, why isn't ANYONE interested in getting this information? Our local station is only part time, so I have to wait til this afternoon to go down there and see if someone will help me.
I don't even believe that it's too much trouble to ask TFL for the CCTV, because a few years ago I reported an aggressive beggar/ money swindler type person who cornered me and S on an empty platform and they caught him using CCTV and he was charged and sentenced. I don't understand why my burglary is any less serious.