Monday

Lucy's posting lots of photos on their blog but Kelly and Craig are a bit slipshod - and Gary's not exactly been prolific - come on, you lot!

Our painter doesn't arrive until Monday morning now, which is also the same time as the hob gets a long overdue overhaul before the insurance runs out on 1st May. I guess I'll have to work from home for a while.

After my epic trawl through Bleak House, I went from the sublime to the ridiculous with this month's audiobook download - it was Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, done live from the stage show, and coming in at less than 2 hours - light and easy listening but now I'm done until next month. Still got over 20 tracks of music downloads to my credit, however - and that's after taking the Raconteurs new album, Consolers of the Lonely - pretty good on first couple of listenings - if anyone wants a copy burned to CD, just let me know.

Been busy trying to sort out my cock-up on booking my flights back from USA this summer - we're currently out there for 4 weeks instead of the usual 3 - don't know how I made such a simple error but, if I want to keep earning a living, I can't realistically stay out there for 4 weeks - sorry Lucy! - no problem for Jo as she'll have retired by then, but I suspect she'd rather travel back with me anyway. It's a complicated schedule and involves BA, Delta and Virgin and each one will make a charge for change and it's not as simple as it would first appear to simply bring the return flights back exactly a week.

It was such a beautiful day yesterday that we should have played golf but, with it being Junior Medal day, the times didn't quite fit in and so we opted for squash doubles instead - it was the first time we've been able to turn the heating off at the cold Crathes court. The new showers are now available at the golf club so we went back there for beers on the balcony watching the sun set in the west - lovely.