Lai Chi Wo Road car park, Saturday morning, 8:30am: two spaces left by the time the second family minivan arrives, and the trail head for Plover Cove Country Park is already loud with hiking poles. Go early or go by minibus from Tai Po Market, otherwise you are parking at the petrol station and adding fifteen minutes on foot before the first hill.

The weekend inventory: home prices are at a 22-week low per 富途, which means property agents will be working the weekend hard and anyone looking at flats should expect a softer pitch than they've heard in five months. The World-First Robotic Liver Transplant out of Queen Mary is the hospital news worth knowing -- not because you need a liver, but because the surgical team will be giving a public briefing Monday 11am and if you know someone on a transplant list, that is the room to be in. Wang Fuk inquiry resumes Tuesday; the scaffolding report landed this week and the SCDF findings are grim, so expect Tuesday's session to be crowded with reporters. The bookshop raids on Wednesday have not yet cleared the dust -- check which Tsim Sha Tsui independent bookstores adjusted their Saturday hours before making a trip. On sport: Hong Kong rugby sevens warm-up fixtures at Hong Kong Stadium, Sunday from 2pm, free outside seating on the hill. Worth an hour. Families with small kids: the Science Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui has a new earth-science programme running both days through the school summer start date, free with regular admission, good for ages six and up. Clinic queues at Yau Ma Tei GOPCs have been running ninety minutes Saturday mornings lately -- go before 8am or after 2pm. Into next week: the property slide that put agents on the weekend hustle feeds directly into Tuesday's Land Registry monthly data drop, which will tell you whether this is a correction or just the start of one.