Himself has spent a majority of the past few days working on the N-gauge railway layout. I have been sitting on the couch for a lot of the pounding in of the track, wires, braces et al and had to hit the Excedrin by last night. Yes, this has dulled my snow knee ability. Yes, I could have just escaped to the craft room but as the ‘Lovely Assistant’ job description calls for me to provide a third hand, it isn’t worth being on another floor only to be called on every five minutes. I have the feeling I wasn’t really needed for a lot of things that I helped with….
Getting the track and points all exactly right takes a good deal of time. Next up is terraforming (okay – building levels of styrofoam for the landscape – but’ terraforming’ sounds better). This afternoon saw him tidying up the many yards of wire under the base
into something less resembling spaghetti.
Our non-Christmasy Christmas has been wonderful (despite the lack of beaches) and neither of us wants it to end. I can’t remember when we last spent this much uninterrupted time together. From the late afternoon of November 27th until today we’ve been joined at the hip so that’s well over four weeks of togetherness. It would probably have to be that summer after he finished his Masters before starting his accountancy training at a Big Six firm. Ever since then he’s not had more than three weeks off at a time, even when for studying for his many professional qualifications.
I’m trying not to think about tomorrow, which sees him going back to work for two and a half days, or a number of early ‘10 Saturdays, which will find him working to make up the three days lost to the east coast snow storm escapade. In Hong Kong we’d have ‘Take Your Wife To Work’ Saturdays but I don’t think that’s quite cricket with The Bank’s World HQ here in the UK.







