Mid-June

Nothing much to write about - just golf, golf, golf at this time of year! It was our Seniors championship on Weds, Fri and Mon - qualified OK, but no prizes.

We're still trying to find a builder to come in and prepare our porch for the new tiles - the old ones need removed and the area needs to be prepared for the tile fixer, but can you find a builder in Deeside nowadays? - they're all too busy and small jobs like this are at the bottom of the queue.

We've started looking at the driveway as well - Everest are now in to this market and the chap is coming back this Saturday with some ideas and samples.

Of course, we had Luca overnight again last Saturday - he was as good as gold again.

Got a phone call from Barry on Monday night telling me Dad had been taken in to hospital with a suspected bowel blockage. He hadn't shown up at his day centre and they had sent somebody round to check him and the ambulance was called. I got up at the crack of dawn on Tuesday and went down to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow to see how he was. It transpired that it was largely caused by dehydration - they X-rayed him and found that he was highly "compacted", so laxatives were prescribed and this eventually, with the aid of a glucose drip, resolved the matter. He'll stay in for a day or so whilst they re-assess his needs for care, but he seems to be OK, although more confused than ever.

I went over to see Dawn after the hospital - they're still doing things in the new house - the decking is laid at the back and a new sideboard had just arrived for the hall. We swapped stories about our kids over bacon butties and pineapple cakes!

Jo is going to one of her work-mates leaving do's tonight (Weds 20th) - ironically, this is almost the first night I haven't been golfing for the last couple of weeks!

Midsummer today/tomorrow, but the weather is far from seasonal - hope it improves soon.