End of the week

It's been a busy week so blog posting has had to take a back seat - until now. Interesting meeting with the Bank of Scotland on Wednesday - they're still in chaos and they tell me the Lloyd's guys are strutting around with a superior air telling the Bank of Scotland guys they are going to have to change to their ways - or else. Expect an announcement next week of 20,000 job losses in the new, combined bank - most of them in the Bank of Scotland.

Nothing else to tell you really - except that, after a long dry spell, we've got some rain at last this afternoon - and unfortunately, it's not forecast to clear until after I've teed off in the morning. Still if I don't get a game, I'll just have a lazy morning and then channel hop at lunchtime between the Dons match at Ibrox and Man U's match at home to Arsenal, where they only need one point to win the Premiership again.

Normally, the Dons match tomorrow would be a non-event, but I went to the Hearts match at Pittodrie on Tuesday with Gary - the first match I'd been to in ages - and I really enjoyed it.

We're at the church centre tomorrow evening for the Malaysian evening - that should be interesting. It all starts to happen at this time of year - next weekend we're off to Macbethfest's (http://www.deesideactivitypark.com/MacbethFest.htm) beer festival in Dess. The following weekend, Kelly and Craig are up and then the week after that is CAMRA's Aberdeen festival, and it's also my annual cricket trip to London - this time it's the 20:20 World Cup and Scotland have qualified! Yes, we're going to see Scotland play in World Cup finals - well, one round anyway - just a pity it's not football (soccer)!

Less than 8 weeks to go now until our trip to USA. I got a fright on Wednesday when KLM left me a message to call them about a change in our flights. It turned out that KLM have handed the route over to their partners, North West - otherwise no change.

Back to work

It was back to work today after my biannual (not biennial, nor annual, Jo) trip overnight to Boat of Garten. The weather was much better than we had forecast - or feared - especially yesterday when we awoke to cloudless skies - time to put the shorts on. This was me outside our hotel in Aviemore just after checking out:

(More on the golf blog).

Trying to play catch up today - got the bank coming in tomorrow and then a board meeting on Thursday - lots to prepare. Spent too much time already fretting over the missing Aberdeen football tickets - can't think what I've done with them - and there's a big match against Hearts tonight. Finally phoned Pittodrie and they have agreed to issue replacements - whew!

Mind you, it's really golfing weather today - and the forecast remains good. What are the odds of getting Jo out on the golf course soon? I've found her golf shoes and I've set up a little lightweight bag for her, so here's hoping - perhaps her first year of retirement will allow her to get out and try it again.