Woke up today to another beautiful March morning, a slight frost on the ground but predicted highs of 17C later today. The café at the train station has started to stock Cadbury’s Crème Eggs, a sure sign that spring can’t be far away now. We’ve actually had a very mild winter, so as nice as it is to have spring on our doorstep, it doesn’t feel like the long-awaited relief that it does in some years.

My week at work seems to be flying by. We’re busy pulling together all the write-ups from my client who prints money, and even I am surprised by how much we accomplished in such a short time. Two of my junior guys have been locked in a project room for three days straight cranking out the slides – I’m giving them the final review this morning, which should be a welcome relief. I’m sure they’re keep to put this to bed. I’ll go out to the client to present the findings later this week (hurrah – a day where most of my time will be spent on trains).

Wedding plans are continuing apace. As I wrote on my other blog (the one on our wedding website), the heavens seem to have aligned. After weeks of chasing various ‘Letters of Freedom’ from various Catholic parishes around the world, my prayers were (literally and figuratively) answered all at once, when all the parishes concerned emailed me on the same day (and within hours of one another) to tell me that they would be sending the required Letters in the next 24 hours. So we’ve managed to navigate the tricky intricacies of the Catholic Church’s bureaucracy. I’m not convinced that the French bureaucracy will be quite so straightforward.

In other news, Dara is coming to visit for the weekend. It will be a good chance to catch up with an old friend, and knowing Dara, quite literally swapping war stories. (For those of you who don’t know Dara, she spends most of her life moving from one war-torn country to another – currently living in Afghanistan). We were going to meet in London, but I’ve managed to lure her down to Canterbury with the promise of cooking a traditional Sunday roast.