Winter arrives

First morning of frost today - had to scrape the windscreen. In fact, when I drove over the moor towards Garlogie, it was snow in places. Anyway, they say it's good to kill off the germs - and there's an old wives tale in the fishing industry that the sprats don't appear until we get some frost - and the catching season is due to start any day now - fingers crossed.

The collapse of sterling is going to increase our costs when we go to Florida next week - although the golf and accommodation is already paid for - we got an average rate of $1.80 for this, but it looks like we'll be lucky to get $1.50 next week. It's all a far cry from the $2.10 level a year ago when we booked it.

Had a quiet evening last night just watching Corrie - that was after Ross and I had brought up the bottom of the display cabinet from Dad's house. Gary and Ross had brought up the heavier top part on Sunday and we thought that might be OK, but Jo thought it looked like what it was - a top part sitting on the ground - so we've now erected the whole cabinet. It'll help with some of our storage issues - Jo says at least she can put my beer in it!

I've just finished off writing the latest Omnibus of Eastenders on DVD for Lucy, so that's me up to date now. This morning, I'm heading off to a seminar on fraud, hosted by one of the banks.