Saturday January 31^st 2009. Launch -75 days.

This is going to be my last relaxing Saturday for a while. Yesterday, we realised that the phrase “thank heavens it’s Friday” is no longer appropriate. From now on it will be “thank heavens it’s Tuesday” (or Wednesday, or…) From Monday we start shift working. This means that most of the team will be working at weekends and taking their days off during the week at some time. At least we will not have to work nights. Yet…

A day relaxing and a 2-0 win for Bristol City and suddenly the world seems a better place. Enjoy it while it lasts! My next weekend will come near the end of the week after next. This though poses an interesting issue. With English, French, Irish and Italians in our team, the Six Nations rugby tournament is usually an excuse for us to gather at the house of someone with satellite television and enjoy the national rivalries within the team. We can’t do that if we are working at the weekend! We have a great spirit within the team (we’ve even convinced our Italian – a banker who has seen the error of his ways and become a respectable rocket scientist instead – to start playing golf) and these weekends are always fun. Mind you, supporting England’s rugby team has not been a lot of fun recently and I can feel more pain coming this time.