Normally I try and at least reflect on the working week before concentrating on the weekend. This entry will be in reverse. I am looking forward to the weekend, in fact I have been waiting for the weekend to come around since sometime mid Monday morning. Anyway, here we are, it is late on Friday night and I have loads to cover this in this weekend preview. Tomorrow has turned out to be a packed day with so much going on. Let me start with the morning. Pav, is picking me up at 8:42am precisely and we will head in a convoy to Aylesbury for the Rolling Road. This has become an annual event, with tomorrow being my third visit to the dyno with the E36 Coupe boys. My photographs from previous events are available over on FlickR from the first event in April 2005 and last year almost exactly to the day. When we get back, which should be early afternoon, we will go for a quick spin in the A3 before he has to head home. Then I think I will give the car a good clean before it gets dark around 4pm. As Thames Water finally lifted the ban yesterday, I can get the pressure washer out and clean my car properly. No need to worry about a buzzer going off and the water slowing to a drip. It will be the first time in several years that I will actually clean my car, inside and out on my drive, rather than just hoover and polish inside and then drive to a jet / car wash to get the job done. I’m looking forward to it, for some strange reason. Must be a typical guy thing. In a gleaming car (yes, black does get very dirty in comparison to my last car colour, which was steel grey) I will head over to Reading. It was Pav’s birthday last Friday but he was out in Austria skiing, so we are having a belated birthday meal with him on Saturday night. I am looking forward to it as a big crowd of us going out and it will be good to catch up with everyone. Most of whom I have not seen New Year’s Eve. Then we come to Sunday, the day of rest. Well this Sunday will be anything but. I know I have been promising Chris for over a year but I have finally decided to come up to a game. In fact I am driving there myself, so like an agent chauffeuring his star player to the game, I will driving to Wickhamford around 8am for an away game. The best part will be photographs of Mr. Williams (number 10, if you didn’t know) wearing the away strip of red. Sacrarilige for him, as an Evertonian. You can ban the colour from your wedding mate, but when it comes to Sunday League football, you have to bite your tongue and live with it. Then after lunch, the drive back to Henley-upon-Thames before driving back home to Wycombe. Then I should be home, with an hour to spare before the second part of the Grand Slam on Sky Sports. Arsenal take on ManYoo at Ashburton Grove. After the game, regardless of the result I will spend some time with the keyboard and my music book. It will have been a week since my first lesson and plenty of homework to do before the next lesson, whenever that may be. So as you can see, quite a packed weekend. If you break it down, a proper lad’s weekend but perhaps not reaching the dizzy heights of late July last year, when we had football followed by cars. That is what is in the pipeline this weekend but I should really go back and discuss the events of this week. Work was busy but an unexpcted development meant we were put under pressure once again. We coped, just about as we always have done but not the ideal way to go into the second full week of the year. I know, deep down I wish things had worked our differently and the original master plan was in full force but there is always another way forward. I have faith that things will work out and that ultimately next week will be a better working week, on all levels.