A reminder of how much I love British Public Transport

I popped home at the weekend to visit my family back in England. Actually, the word 'popped' seems inappropriately light considering the effort it took to get there for such a short space of time. My journey started on Saturday morning and after travelling by train, plane, bus, another train, another bus, another train then a car I finally managed to get to Portsmouth during the late afternoon. Only to turn around and fly back again less than 24 hours later. Why do I always choose weekends when they're doing maintenance on the railway lines to visit England? Or are they doing this every weekend these days?