At last! A weekend! Work has been so manic (not in a particularly good way) and draining these past couple of weeks that weekends feel like little islands of calm, offering an all too brief respite from navigating the choppy seas. This hasn't really helped my stress or my ever-growing blog backlog.

I'm taking a break from everything this weekend though to see friends, which will be nice. Not long now until Christmas/new year, then I can take a reasonably long break from work, albeit one partly filled with "family fun".

The photo above is looking across the Medway from Rochester towards Frindsbury, a few miles up the river from the photo of the estuary I took several weeks ago. The trains are rather chaotic today due to work on the line I usually use, so I'm having to take a roundabout route - on train number three now. Still, it's nice to see a few different views out of the window.

The next 4 hours of my life will be challenging.