The weekend was great, however as usual too short. On Saturday we went to the bank, as I had an appointment with a financial advisor, and I signed myself up for an income protection. The deal is quite good, if on any health reason, I become to be unable to carry out my job, I will get £900 tax-free income each month, until I am 55 years old. I needed to have this security, because doing policing is not a life insurance. There is a high risk I can be injured which would turn our life upside down. I know the police federation would pay an amount for me each month but that would not be enough. However this £900 extra would be just the money to survive with until I get better. So it is a good feeling to know there will be something to fall back on. The policy of this deal is quite flexible, I can increase and decrease the amount any time, it is entirely up to me. And it does not cost much for me each month. Probably when we will have children and mortgage I will increase the income protection, but at the moment this is fine.

Then we went to our travel agent to order Dominican pesos, where I needed to lecture the advisor, that there is an import/export limit (20K) in pesos. She had no idea. (and she is dealing with these every time) Incredible how incompetent people can work in important positions. 

Saturday afternoon went to play badminton. 10 of us were around to play for two hours, it was absolutely great. Also we got Mrs. Smith's bicycle "serviced", and got rid of our "old, Manchester free-cycle" microwave oven, because her parents sent a parcel from Hungary, with our "home" microwave in it :)

On Sunday, we spent the day cleaning, and had a "gettogether" from 16:00. 12 people were invited, from all ages. Our cat was chased around in the flat by two little girls who enjoyed it very much. Unfortunately the cat didn't. :) No harm done, tho. We had great fun, ate a lot, drank a lot, played card games, so enjoyed it very much. The last people left at 21:00. Half an hour later I needed to work, I had an out of hours job to carry out on our voice switches. Unfortunately as it did not go well it took longer than I expected, so could finish up at 22:50 :(. 

We finished watching a movie we abandoned before and went to bed at midnight. I always wonder, how the hell can a weekend pass by that quickly? Why aren't weekdays behaving the same?

I think we have a great team now, a great social life, I would really like this to stay.